About our company

Meta Progress was formed in 1998 to develop state-of-the-art pharmacological software to scientifically assess the distribution of drugs in the human body.  The mission statement has always been to simplify technology.  As a result, products developed by Meta Progress were universally received by end users needing productivity, not complexity. 

Since that time, Meta Progress has expanded its scope of services to include custom programming in the field of data processing.  Meta Progress has worked with Fortune 500 companies and governments, developing database management tools that process over a millions of records a day on inexpensive, low power servers.   Our company has developed speech recognition technology in conjunction with Microsoft Speech Server SDK and telephony applications with Brooktrout technologies.  Our customers include:

• United States Navy Medical Center
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• University of Miami Medical School
• University of Pittsburgh
• United States Air Force
• University of Hong Kong
• Army Medical Center
• Wisconsin Department of Transportation
• The University of Illinois at Chicago

Company Leadership

Anton Hopen, CEO

Anton Hopen is a graduate of the University of South Florida Honors Program with a degree in Interdisciplinary Science.  He has a law degree from the University of Florida College of Law and is a registered United States Patent Attorney and managing partner of Smith & Hopen, P.A. - one of the largest intellectual property practices in Florida. He is chief software architect for Meta Progress.

 

Frank K. Russo, President

Frank has been formally recognized by his peers as a "Leading American Attorney," www.lawlead.com and is “AV” rated by Martindale-Hubbell. www.martindale.com. He has the benefit of insight gained through his tenure as a former state prosecutor.  Frank is the founder of Russo & Russo, a highly regarded law practice in St. Petersburg.