Software Company Copado Moves Global Headquarters to Downtown New Orleans: Poydras Tower Base to Bring 136 Jobs, Including 59 Direct Jobs Averaging $104,000
City leaders in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, joined Greater New Orleans, Inc. (GNO) at a news conference on October 20 to announce that software company Copado is moving its global headquarters from Chicago to Poydras Tower in downtown New Orleans. Mayor Helena Moreno joined Copado CEO Ted Elliott and Michael Hecht, President and CEO of GNO, Inc., to make the announcement.
According to GNO's news release, the move will create 136 new jobs in total, including 59 direct jobs with average salaries of $104,000. Copado is an enterprise software company that uses agentic automation to help businesses build, test and deliver software applications. The company opened its first Louisiana office in New Orleans in 2024 and has already hired recent graduates from Tulane, LSU and Xavier.
GNO describes Copado as a leader in AgentOps for business applications, pioneering the shift from automated to autonomous software delivery while keeping humans in control through its Agentia platform. The company is trusted by more than 1,200 global brands and a practitioner community of more than 150,000. (Compiled from WDSU and the Greater New Orleans, Inc. news release, via KMEZ)
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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