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2008 UHY LLP
Tech Top 40
Award Winners
This Connecticut Technology awards program recognizes mid to large-sized technology companies on the basis of revenue growth. Forty awards will be presented in six technology verticals with one overall winner in each of the six categories: Software, It Services, New Media/Internet, Life Sciences, Advanced Manufacturing, Energy/Environmental Technology (including green technologies) and Telecom.
Here are the Tech Top 40 Winners in Connecticut, in alphabetical order:
Company |
Description |
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| Adeptra, Inc. | Norwalk, CT Lou Venezia - CEO |
Adeptra is the global leader in providing automated contact and interaction services to companies in the Consumer Credit and Risk Management industry. The company has revolutionized how businesses manage time sensitive and vital interactions with their customers. Adeptra's services enhance the quality of customer interaction and significantly reduce operational costs. Its services are deployed in 15 of the top 20 consumer lending and billing organizations globally. |
| Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | Cheshire CT Leonard Bell, M.D. - CEO, Secretary, Treasurer, Director |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company working to develop and deliver life-changing drug therapies for patients with serious and life-threatening medical conditions. Alexion is engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutic products aimed at treating patients with a wide array of severe disease states, including hematologic diseases, cancer, and autoimmune disorders. Alexion's first product, Soliris, is the only therapy to block hemolysis in patients with PNH. PNH is a rare, debilitating and life-threatening blood disorder defined by the destruction of red blood cells, or hemolysis. |
| APS Technology Inc. | Wallingford CT William E. Turner - |
APS Technology, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures electromechanical, instrumentation, sensor and software products for the oilfield. APS has deep engineering expertise in oilfield sensor and drilling equipment, shock and vibration isolation designs, mechanical and electronics analysis for harsh environments, and contract design including project management. APS’s customers include all of the major integrated multinational oilfield service companies, independent directional drilling and measurement-while-drilling service companies, and non-drilling-related oilfield companies. |
| Axsys Technologies, Inc. | Rocky Hill CT www.axsys.com Stephen Bershad - Chairman, CEO |
Axsys Technologies, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance infrared surveilliance and imaging systems and related motion control technologies. Its products are used in a wide range of applications serving the aerospace, defense, homeland security, law enforcement, broadcast and production, and other high-performance commercial markets. |
| Basement Systems Inc. | Seymour CT Lawrence Janesky - President |
Basement Systems is the world leader in basement and crawl space moisture control technology. A business plan based on environmental innovation has resulted in 24 patented products designed to revolutionize how homeowners use the below ground space in their homes. The company’s technological breakthroughs have resulted in healthier, more energy efficient environments in homes throughout North America and in the UK. |
| Bolt Technology | Norwalk CT
Raymond Soto - Chairman of the Board, President, CEO |
Bolt Technology Corporation is a leading worldwide developer and manufacturer of oilfield services equipment, including seismic energy sources, seismic source controllers and synchronizers and underwater connectors used in offshore seismic exploration for oil and gas. |
| CAS Medical Systems | Branford, CT Andrew Kersey President - CEO | CAS Medical Systems (CASMED) is dedicated to the design and manufacture of innovative, non-invasive technologies and products vital to patient care in the most challenging clinical environments. CASMED provides products to hospitals, emergency medical services, home care providers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). These products include: cerebral oximeters, blood pressure measurement technology, cardio-respiratory and apnea monitors and supplies for neonatal intensive care. |
| Cervalis | Shelton CT Michael Boccardi - President, CEO | Cervalis is a provider of IT infrastructure solutions including business continuity/rapid recovery, managed hosting, managed security, managed storage, networking and telecommunications and co-location. The company’s skilled professionals, world-class facilities and outstanding customer support provide its clients with a secure IT environment that ensures business resilience. |
| Clean Diesel Technologies | Stamford
CT
Bernhard Steiner - President, CEO |
Clean Diesel Technologies provides sustainable solutions to reduce emissions, increase energy efficiency and lower the carbon intensity of on- and off-road engine applications. Clean Diesel's patented technologies and products allow manufacturers and operators to comply with increasingly strict regulatory emissions and air quality standards, while also improving fuel economy and power. The Company's solutions, which are in commercial use worldwide, significantly reduce emissions formed by the combustion of fossil fuels and biofuels, including particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. Clean Diesel solutions also reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a key greenhouse gas associated with global climate change. |
| Defibtech LLC |
Guilford
CT
Gintaris Vaisnys - President |
Defibtech is an innovator in the field of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs). The company designs and manufactures the award-winning, FDA-cleared Lifeline® and ReviveR™ brands of defibrillators and related accessories. Its products are sold exclusively through a network of distribution partners in the United States and around the world. Defibtech manufactures all of its defibrillators in the United States in a state-of-the-art ISO 13485:2003 certified facility. |
| Evolution Benefits Inc. | Avon CT Robert Patricelli Chairman - CEO |
Evolution Benefits, Inc. is the industry leader in electronic benefit payment solutions for the employee benefits market. Its primary product, the Benny™ Prepaid Benefits Card, applies advanced payment and patented auto-substantiation technologies to health-related benefits accounts such as FSAs, HRAs, and HSAs. The company now powers the card programs of more than 200 administrative services organizations and covers more than 11,000 employers, including over 100 of the nation's top-ranked Fortune and Forbes companies. |
| Fuel Cell Energy, Inc. | Danbury CT
R. Daniel Brdr Chairman - President |
FuelCell Energy is the world leader in the development and production of stationary fuel cells for commercial, industrial, municipal and utility customers. FuelCell Energy's ultra-clean and high efficiency DFC(r) fuel cells are generating power at over 45 locations worldwide. The company's power plants have generated more than 230 million kWh of power using a variety of fuels including renewable wastewater gas, biogas from beer and food processing as well as natural gas and other hydrocarbon fuels. FuelCell Energy has partnerships with major power plant developers, trading companies and power companies around the world. The company also receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and other government agencies for the development of leading edge technologies such as hybrid fuel cell/turbine generators and solid oxide fuel cells. |
| Fuss & O'Neill Technologies | Manchester CT
John W. Boyd - President |
Fuss & O'Neill Technologies (fandotech) provides technology solutions from the datacenter to the desktop. Fandotech delivers outsourced IT facilities, software and services to companies focused on their core business. Products from fandotech include data center solutions (OFFSITE data centers), managed network services (360IT MSP), and application development (GIS/asset management solutions). Fuss & O’Neill Technologies owns and operates three centrally located datacenters providing hosting, collocation, and managed services to continuously operate and monitor client assets from Boston to the Hudson Valley. |
| Higher One | New Haven CT
Dean Hatton - President, CEO |
Higher One provides its refund management disbursement service to higher education institutions and banking services to members of their community through a card-based solution. Higher One's integrated solution helps universities reduce administrative costs, streamline business processes, create new revenue streams, increase student customer service and strengthen the campus community. |
| IMS Health Plan | Norwalk CT
David Carlucci - Chairman of the Board, President, CEO |
Operating in more than 100 countries, IMS Health is a provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. IMS offers leading-edge market intelligence products and services that are integral to clients' day-to-day operations, including portfolio optimization capabilities; launch and brand management solutions; sales force effectiveness innovations; managed care and consumer health offerings; and consulting and services solutions that improve ROI and the delivery of quality healthcare worldwide. |
| INNCOM International Inc. | Niantic
CT
Duane Buckingham - Chairman, CEO |
INNCOM develops integrated room automation systems for the global lodging industry. The company's offerings range from programmable digital thermostats, lighting controls, and guestroom amenities to fully integrated energy managment and communications systems. All products are designed to enhance guest comfort, safety and satisfaction while increasing property profits. INNCOM enjoys an established market position with sytems installed in more than 650,000 guestrooms worldwide. |
| Job Target, LLC. | New London
Andrew Banever - President, CEO |
JobTarget is the leading online source for recruitment advertising and job posting management services. As an industry leader in job board development, JobTarget manages over 1000 independent, online job boards for professional and trade associations, publishers, and online entrepreneurs. This network of job boards, in addition to thousands of other popular sites, are available through an advanced job distribution service - JobTarget OneClick - a onestop research and job posting service. |
| Jupitermedia Corporation | Darien CT
Alan Meckler Chairman - CEO |
Jupitermedia Corporation is a provider of original images and information for creative, business and information technology professionals. Jupiterimages provides photos and other graphic images electronically while JupiterOnlineMedia operates five distinct online networks for IT professionals, developers, and creative professionals. |
| L-1 Identity Solutions | Stamford
CT
Robert LaPenta Chairman of the Board, President - CEO |
L-1 Identity Solutions is a provider of solutions and services that protect and secure personal identities and assets. Together, its portfolio of companies—Visage, Identix, Integrated Biometric Technology, SecuriMetrics, Iridian, SpecTal, ComnetiX, McClendon and Advanced Concepts, Inc.—deliver the full range of offerings required for solving the problems associated with managing human identity. They serve the identity needs of federal governments, civil agencies, law enforcement, border management agencies and commercial businesses. |
| M Cubed Technologies | Trumbull CT
Randall D. Price, Sr. - President, CEO |
M Cubed Technologies provides customers with material solutions using its advanced composite materials, manufacturing expertise and application skills. M Cubed's composite materials provide the performance of ceramics with the shaping flexibility normally associated with metals. M Cubed materials are used today in light-weight armor systems, capital equipment for the production of semiconductors, liquid crystal displays and flat panel displays, and power generation and thermal management applications. Expansion into selected other target markets is currently being implemented. The Company is one of the largest supplier of ceramic composite materials for body armor to U.S. defense forces. |
| MTM Technologies, Inc. | Stamford CT Steven Stringer - President, CEO | MTM Technologies, Inc. is a leading national provider of innovative IT solutions and services to Global 2000 and mid-size companies. Partnered nationally with industry-leading technology providers such as Cisco Systems, Citrix, EMC, HP, and Microsoft, MTM Technologies offers comprehensive solutions in the areas of secure access, unified communications, consolidation, and virtualization. In addition, MTM Technologies provides a broad range of complimentary managed service offerings, including system monitoring and management, security management, IP telephony management, and IT helpdesk support. |
| On Site Gas Systems | Newington
CT
Guy Hatch - CEO |
On Site Gas Systems designs and builds systems that generate oxygen and nitrogen. Its systems are a cost efective alternative to liquid/bulk gases across numerous applications including food packaging, laser cutting, electronics manufacturing, oil production, coal mine safety, and hospitals. The company's Portable Oxygen Generating System (POGS33C) is used daily in Iraq and by first responders during emergency relief efforts like Hurricane Katrina. On Site Gas Systems' products save lives, money and the environment. |
| Open Solutions Inc. | Glastonbury CT
Louis Hernandez, Jr. Chairman - CEO |
Open Solutions Inc. focuses on the financial services marketplace by providing state-of-the-art industry specific products and services. It provides mission critical technologies that enable its clients across the globe to strengthen relationships, improve productivity, drive new revenue, and reduce training and administrative costs. Its clients have grown to include some of the largest banks, credit unions, insurance providers, retailers and wealth management companies in the world. |
| Pelham Sloane, Inc. | Fairfield
CT
John Jensen Chairman - CEO |
Pelham Sloane designs, manufactures and markets patented, all-in-one computing solutions. Pelham Sloane’s products deliver space and energy efficiencies without sacrificing processing power or configuration flexibility. The PSynergy 1750 is a sleek 17" computer incpororating the entire CPU behind a flat screen measuring only 2¾" thick. A flexible design allows customization of its products to vertical markets including health care, kiosk and digital signage Features include touch screen, wireless, TV tuner, wall and arm mounting. The company sells to OEM's VARs and resellers. |
| Perimeter eSecurity | Milford CT
Brad Miller - CEO |
As the only provider of complete security on demand, Perimeter eSecurity makes security easily available and affordable for all businesses. Perimeter's on demand security services protect thousands of computer networks nationwide, offering more than 50 different services on a subscription basis in the areas of: Vulnerability Defense, Intrusion Defense, Network Defense, Email Defense, System Defense, and User Defense. With the proliferation of security threats and technologies, clients benefit from a single-source provider that offers all services through one pre-integrated platform and web portal. |
| Premise USA | Farmington CT
Eric Rosow Chairman - CEO |
Premise is a leading provider of integrated and clinically-focused software solutions that optimize hosptial patient flow, streamline communications, enhance operational efficiency, and empower knowledge-based decision making. Driven by the vision that optimized delivery of healthcare services can be realized through well-coordinated business processes combined with the widespread use and visualization of real-time operating data, Premise delivers the industry's most advanced and intuitive systems for driving streamlined patient flow logistics. |
| Presstek, Inc. | Greenwich CT
Jeff Jacobson President - CEO |
Presstek is a customer-oriented, market-focused company engaged in the design, manufacture, sales and service of digital printing solutions that enable print service providers to leverage business opportunities in the fast growing short-run color print market. Its environmentaly friendly DI digital offset presses, computer-to-plate (CTP), and plate products are helping its customers to become more capable, profitable and competitive. Presstek solutions are engineered to provide a streamlined workflow in a chemistry-free environment, resulting in shorter printing cycles and lower overall production costs with no compromise in quality. |
| Priceline.com | Norwalk CT
Jeffery H. Boyd - President, CEO |
Priceline.com is the leading travel service for value-conscious leisure travelers. Its customers save on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises. In addition to getting the best published prices, leisure travelers can narrow their searches using priceline.com’s TripFilter™ advanced search technology, create packages to save even more money, and take advantage of priceline.com’s famous Name Your Own Price® service, which delivers the lowest prices available. |
| Protegrity | Stamford
CT
Gordon Rapkin - CEO |
Protegrity delivers centralized data security management solutions that protect sensitive information from acquisition to deletion across the enterprise. Protegrity’s customers maintain complete protection over their data and business by employing software and solutions specifically designed to encrypt data, safeguard web applications, and manage and report on security policy. The company’s singular focus is on developing solutions that protect data. Protegrity clients maximize security with minimal business impact with Protegrity’s Defiance® Suite, a transparent solution optimized for the dynamic enterprise. |
| Sensor Switch | Wallingford CT
Brian Platner - President |
Founded in 1987, Sensor Switch is the industry leader in developing Occupancy Sensor Products & Technology for Lighting Control. Since that time, the company has built a long list of satisfied users across diverse applications. Schools, warehouses, factories, offices, government buildings, retail stores... you name it, they've sensored it. The company's years of experience and wide breadth of sensor and photocell products ensure it can provide a reliable solution for any application or building type. |
| Tangoe Inc. | Orange CT
Al Subbloie President - CEO |
Tangoe provides technology-driven services that enable global organizations to procure, manage, and control their fixed and mobile communications assets and their costs. Tangoe's software and service solutions are built upon patented technologies that enable dramatic cost reductions and process efficiencies which significantly contribute to organizational profitability. |
| Terra Technology | Norwalk CT
Robert F. Byrne President - CEO |
Terra Technology is the leading provider of demand sensing and inventory optimization software for consumer goods companies. Terra's solutions incorporate demand signals from throughout the supply chain including retailer data, reducing forecast error by up to 50 percent and inventory up to 20 percent. More accurate forecasts and inventory targets improve customer service, lower inventory, decrease unplanned changeovers and reduce costs. |
| The TNS Group | Stamford CT
Steve Viscardi - President |
The TNS Group is a leading technology services company, committed to delivering IT innovation and excellence within the framework of an understandable and practical methodology. By developing a relationship as a trusted advisor, TNS collaborates with clients to help them realize their IT goals. The TNS design and support philosophy emphasizes industry "best practices," while maximizing ROI with savvy solutions. With expertise in IT-managed services, broad resources and experience in consulting and outsourcing, TNS is uniquely positioned to mobilize the people, skills, alliances, and technologies to ensure success and client satisfaction. |
| Ticket Software LLC | Vernon
CT
Donald Vaccaro - President, CEO |
TicketNetwork is the leading source for the most comprehensive selection of tickets at competitive prices. It is the world's leading provider of real-time ticket inventory and sells sought after tickets to concert, sporting, and theater events through North America. The company is also the leading-edge technology provider in the secondary ticketing industry and it provides the most efficient solutions for ticket buyers and ticket sellers. TicketNetwork’s inventory includes more than $1 billion in tickets to 82,000 events worldwide. The company’s properties include: TicketLiquidator.com, TicketNetwork Direct, TicketNews, Ticket Summit 2009 and TicketNetwork point-of-sale solutions. |
| TopCoder, Inc. | Glastonbury
CT
Rob Hughes President - CEO |
TopCoder is the world’s largest competitive software development community with over 170,000 developers representing more than 200 countries. TopCoder hosts the largest and most comprehensive developer ratings and performance metrics available. The TopCoder community builds software for a wide-ranging client base through a competitive, rigorous, standards based methodology. TopCoder seeks to lower the cost of software development while increasing both the speed at which applications can be developed and the quality of the ultimate application. |
| Triple Point Technologies, inc. | Westport
CT
Peter F. Armstrong - President, CEO |
Triple Point Technology is the leader in trading and risk management solutions for commodities including power, oil, gas, coal, metals, agricultural products, freight and biofuels. Triple Point Commodity XL™ profitably manages the complex, ever-changing requirements of physical and financial markets. Commodity XL integrates front-to-back office and delivers best-of-breed functionality for the supply, trading, marketing and movement of commodities on a single next-generation platform. Triple Point’s real-time system streamlines trade processing, reduces transaction costs, maximizes supply chain efficiencies, precisely measures and manages market risk, evaluates performance, and ensures regulatory and accounting compliance. |
| VBrick Systems, Inc. | Wallingford
CT
Vincent Graziani - CEO |
VBrick Systems is the world leader of live, online networked video solutions. Offering the most comprehensive suite of enterprise video products in the industry, VBrick provides business and organizations with robust and proven online video systems that connect people any time, any where, over any network, to any one. Over 5,000 customers are employing VBrick video broadcasts in over 20 countries in the enterprise, government and educational markets. |
| VIRTERA | Shelton CT
Howard Pavony - CEO |
VIRTERA is a vendor agnostic, independent Information Technology (IT) professional services and consulting firm delivering virtualization technology solutions and services to companies nationwide. VIRTERA’s proven vSpectrum consulting methodology ensures successful and rapid adoption of virtualization technologies while delivering an optimum return on organizations’ IT investments. VIRTERA’s architects and consultants develop, deploy and manage Virtual Infrastructure (VI) solutions to solve today’s most challenging IT issues while its industry strategy group tests and analyzes virtualization trends across the entire virtual ecosystem. |
| Webloyalty | Norwalk
CT
Rick Fernandes - CEO, Founder |
Webloyalty.com provides more than 150 e-commerce sites with solutions for generating incemental revenue by driving traffic, minimizing site and shopping cart abandonment, offering alternative payment methods, cross-selling additional merchandise and encouraging repeat business. Webloyalty has more than 450 employees in eight different locations across the U.S. and in Europe. |
| Z-Medica Corporation | Wallingford CT
Raymond Huey - CEO |
Z-Medica Corporation is a medical products company focused on innovative blood clotting technologies – solutions that save lives. QuikClot® was developed in cooperation with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the U.S. Marine Corps' Warfighting Laboratory, the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command and university hospitals. It represents the first and most effective solution to severe blood loss outside the operating room setting. Z-Medica serves several global vertical markets, including military, first responder, homeland and private security. The company is fully engaged in accelerating development and distribution of QuikClot® hemostatic agent, QuikClot ACS™ and related products. |