WASHINGTON, Oct 02, 2007 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- V-Empower,
Inc. tops the list of the fastest growing technology companies in
Maryland as recognized by Deloitte & Touche LLP at an award
event held October 2 at The Sequoia in Georgetown. Called the
"Maryland Technology Fast 50," the annual award program ranks
technology companies located in Maryland by revenue growth. The
awards in Maryland and Virginia are sponsored by Wilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, NASDAQ and SmartCEO Magazine.
"Deloitte's Maryland Technology Fast 50 companies have shown the
strength, vision and tenacity to succeed in today's very competitive
technology environment," said Mr. Gary H. Tabach, Managing Partner
for Deloitte's Greater Washington Practice. "We applaud the
successes of V-Empower, Inc. and acknowledge it as one of the very
few to accomplish such an impressive growth rate over the past five
years."
"The 2007 Maryland Fast 50 have experienced remarkable growth
while competing with technology and life sciences companies in this
global marketplace. Today, we congratulate the winning companies on
their noteworthy accomplishments and continued growth," said Mr.
William J. Perlstein, Co- Managing Partner of WilmerHale.
Winners are selected based on percentage revenue growth over five
years from 2002 to 2006. To be considered, Technology Fast 50
entrants must: have operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 2002
and at least $5,000,000 in 2006; be headquartered in Maryland; be a
"technology company," defined as a company that owns proprietary
technology that contributes to a significant portion of its
operating revenues; or devotes a significant proportion of revenues
to the research and development of technology. Using other
companies' technology in a unique way does not qualify. Subsidiaries
and divisions are not eligible, unless they have some public
ownership and are separately traded.
The Technology Fast 50 company
rankings are as follows:
2007
Rank Company
Name City 5yr%
1 V-Empower
Inc. Bowie 9268%
2 NexTone
Communications,
Inc. Gaithersburg 2812%
3 Sourcefire,
Inc. Columbia 2263%
4 VISICU,
Inc. Baltimore 1993%
5 BroadSoft,
Inc. Gaithersburg 1499%
6 iBiquity
Digital
Corporation Columbia 1045%
7 Proteus
Technologies,
Inc. Annapolis 1018%
8 APC
Wireless Rockville 991%
9 Viamericas
Corporation Bethesda 845%
10 iJET
Intelligent Risk Systems
Annapolis 722%
11 InfoZen,
Inc. Rockville 646%
12 Human
Genome Sciences,
Inc. Rockville 622%
13 Welocalize
Inc. Frederick 582%
14 EntreMed,
Inc. Rockville 514%
15 Martek
Biosciences
Corporation Columbia 488%
16 United
Therapeutics
Corporation Silver
Spring 430%
17 Paradigm
Infotech,
Inc. Columbia 427%
18 Cbay
Systems and
Services
Inc. Annapolis 328%
19 Systems
Integration
&
Development,
Inc. Rockville 316%
20 SP
Systems,
Inc. Greenbelt 312%
21 Catapult
Technology,
Ltd. Bethesda 304%
22 WealthEngine.com Bethesda 302%
23 NETCONN
Solutions Hagerstown 284%
24 Vocus,
Inc. Lanham 250%
25 Tresys
Technology,
LLC Columbia 243%
26 TVI
Corporation Glenn
Dale 225%
27 Chesapeake
Research
Review,
Inc. Columbia 221%
28 Metastorm,
Inc. Baltimore 182%
29 CNSI Rockville 181%
30 Universal
Security
Instruments,
Inc. Owings
Mills 176%
31 Gryphon
Technologies,
LC Greenbelt 174%
32 Optelecom,
Inc Germantown 165%
33 Barcoding
Inc. Baltimore 159%
34 Advanced
Concepts,
Inc. Columbia 151%
35 Infinite
Computer
Solutions Rockville 143%
36 Integral
Systems,
Inc. Lanham 129%
37 GenVec,
Inc. Gaithersburg 125%
38 United
Industrial Corp. Hunt
Valley 118%
39 Dataprise,
Inc. Rockville 101%
40 CoStar
Group,
Inc. Bethesda 100%
41 Advanced
Broadband
Solutions,
Inc. Rockville 97%
42 Emergent
BioSolutions
Inc. Rockville 94%
43 CSI
Engineering,
PC Beltsville 91%
44 MICROS
Systems,
Inc. Columbia 82%
45 OPNET
Technologies,
Inc. Bethesda 70%
46 NMR
Consulting Annapolis 66%
47 Stratos
Global
Corp. Bethesda 65%
48 Spherix
Incorporated Beltsville 64%
49 Savantage
Solutions Rockville 62%
50 Ciena
Corporation Linthicum 56%
Also this year, Deloitte's 2007 Technology Fast 50 Awards program
will premiere the Technology Fast 50 Business Diversity Awards. The
Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Business Diversity Awards acknowledge
the growing importance of an innovative group of local small
technology businesses in Maryland and Virginia that are owned and
managed by individuals classified by the U.S. Small Business
Administration as having one or more of the following small business
designations: Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned, Veteran-Owned, Service
Disabled Veteran-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business, and HUBZone.
Companies receiving this award
include (in rank order):
1. Ideal
Innovations
2. Ecompex,
Inc.
3. PRO-telligent,
LLC
4. G&B Solutions,
Inc.
5. InfoZen,
Inc.
6. Access Systems,
Inc.
7.
ConceptSolutions
8. ActioNet,
Inc.
9. SP Systems,
Inc.
10. Catapult Technology,
Ltd.
The Maryland Technology Fast 50 program is hosted by Deloitte
& Touche LLP, along with WilmerHale, NASDAQ and SmartCEO
magazine.
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