2020 Fast Growth 150: The Top 25 Solution Providers
Here are the top 25 companies on this year‘s Fast Growth 150 list, which ranks solution providers, with gross annual sales of at least $1 million, by their two-year growth rate.
The CRN Fast Growth 150 ranks solution providers, with annual sales of at least $1 million, by their average two-year revenue growth rate.
Overall, this year’s Fast Growth 150 recorded an average two-year growth rate of 101 percent – slower than the 147 percent average growth rate for the 2019 Fast Growth 150, but better than the 83 percent average two-year growth rate for the 2018 list.
The 150 companies on this year’s list collectively generated revenue of $37.80 billion in 2019 compared to $55.93 the year before. (The cumulative revenue figure changes year to year depending on the mix of small and large companies.) And of the 150 companies on the 2020 ranking, 50 have never been on the list before.
Here are the top 25 companies on this year‘s list. The full ranking is available at www.crn.com/fastgrowth.
25. Cybersafe Solutions
Location: Jericho, N.Y.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 133.33 percent
Top Executive: Benedetto Filingeri, CEO
The up-and-coming solution provider offers endpoint security, managed detection response, network and cloud security monitoring, intrusion monitoring as well as several other security services from its home in Long Island. Using what it calls “The Defense-In-Depth” approach Cybersafe runs customers through a multi-layered series of risk assessments, prevention, continuous monitoring, detection and rapid incident response. It also boasts its own SOC in Beltville, Md. where it keeps an eye on customers 24-hours a day throughout the year.
24. Evotek
Location: San Diego.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 133.35 percent
Top Executive: Cedar Enciso, Founder, CEO
Founded in 2014, the security solutions provider based in Southern California earned its third consecutive spot on the Fast Growth 150 by posting another year of huge gains under the leadership of founder and managing partner, Cedar Enciso. With more than 100 employees Evotek specializes in cybersecurity, AI, mobility, platform engineering, as well as data center.
23. Converged Technology Professionals
Location: Crystal Lake, Ill.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 136.24 percent
Top Executive: Joe Rittenhouse, President
Converged Technology Professionals dialed up some serious gains with its UCaaS services. The Illinois-based RingCentral Preferred Partner, and Mitel Platinum Partner provides voice and data consulting support to customers from their headquarters, as well as regional offices in Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, and Michigan.
22. n2grate Government Technology Solution
Location: Greenbelt, Md.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 136.67 percent
Top Executive: Steve Halligan, CEO
Founded by a retired federal judge, n2Grate is specialized in data center and cloud integrations for large business customers as well as clients in the public sector. Based outside of Washington, D.C., the company was created in 2010 to help federal agencies with complicated data center and cloud computing needs.
21. FedBiz IT Solutions
Location: Leesburg, Va..
Two-Year Growth Rate: 138.30 percent
Top Executive: Nina Tiaga, CEO
As the name implies, this veteran and minority-owned business is laser focused on growing in the federal space and it is succeeding. Run by two U.S. Air Force veterans, FedBiz IT Solutions grew at a remarkable 138.30 percent last year. Though it has fewer than 20 employees, FedBiz IT is one of a handful of solution providers nationwide, to be awarded the highly coveted NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V – Group B HUBZone set-aside contract.
20. Ntiva
Location: McLean, Va.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 145.09 percent
Top Executive: Steven Freidkin, CEO
Based in the highly competitive technology hub McLean, Va., Ntiva was founded by Steven Freidkin, who started his first IT consulting business while still in high school. After graduating the University of Maryland, Freidkin founded Ntiva, which now boasts more than 200 employees and 1,200 customers across the country. While the company’s core is managed IT services, it also offers cybersecurity, IT consulting, as well as UCaaS services to its customers.
19. NexusTek
Location: Greenwood Village, Colo.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 155.73 percent
Top Executive: Bill Wolsilius, CEO
One of the older companies on the list, NexusTek proves growth can come at any age. Founded in 1996, the company runs its national managed IT services business from its headquarters in Colorado. The Microsoft Gold partner boasts more than 200 employees across the country, serving thousands of customers with round-the-clock support. NexusTek is SOC II certified and qualified for the GDPR rider in 2018.
18. DH Technologies
Location: Leesburg, Va.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 167.24 percent
Top Executive: Devin Henderson, CEO
Owned and operated by founder Devin Henderson – who previously ran a value-added reseller – DH Technologies’ customers take advantage of the company’s strategic partnerships with Pure Storage, Cohesity, SolarWinds, Nunantix, Nvidia, VMware, Cisco, Liquidware, Trustwave among others. The HUBZone certified business is focused on enabling its customer’s digital transformation from concept through to completion.
17. The [RE]DESIGN Group
Location: Hermosa Beach, Calif.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 181.28 percent
Top Executive: Joseph Sanginario, CEO
Inspired by the Buddhist teaching that every endeavor should deliver a measure of good to humanity, The [RE]DESIGN Group employees 15 people from its home base in Hermosa Beach. The Dell Technologies Platinum partner works with enterprise customers in the financial, media and entertainment space to develop converged and hyper-converged solutions, networking, visualization, and other high-performance computing needs. It also provides real time and volumetric capture pipelines, as well as data management for VR and AR workloads.
16. Orion Global Solutions
Location: New York
Two-Year Growth Rate: 184.38 percent
Top Executive: Yacov Wrocherinsky, CEO
Another great year of growth for Orion Global Solutions as the cloud advisory firm drilled into its core Salesforce implementation business to deliver outstanding triple-digit gains. Operating in the red-hot cloud advisory space, the company’s team helps customers in health care, life sciences, financial services and high tech, pick the right platform for their business.
15. AHEAD
Location: Chicago
Two-Year Growth Rate: 198.85 percent
Top Executive: Daniel Adamany, Founder, CEO
The massive Midwestern solution provider is in its 13th year as a digital change agent. The data center focused business won VMware’s 2020 Partner of the Year Award for service excellence. AHEAD, No. 75 on the 2019 CRN Solution Provider 500 has invested heavily – more than $100 million -- in consulting, which is one of the areas recognized by VMware.
14. BlackLake Security
Location: Austin, Texas
Two-Year Growth Rate: 199.50 percent
Top Executive: Mark Jones, CEO
The company followed its 2019 debut on the Fast Growth 150 with another solid performance to earn a spot in 2020 with triple digit growth under CEO Mark Jones leadership. The security solutions company is committed to helping customers understand where threats are coming from and how to chart a path through the perils that exist. The company’s stated purpose is to protect intellectual property from “hackers and terrorists” by leveraging more than 50 years of combined in-house technology experience.
13. Cloud Ingenuity
Location: Carrollton, Texas
Two-Year Growth Rate: 217.86 percent
Top Executive: Suzanne Kosub, Managing Partner, CEO
Cloud Ingenuity offers comprehensive services across multi-cloud, cybersecurity, network modernization, collaboration, and enterprise visibility. The company integrates technology-based business solutions that span the enterprise, including the data center and lines of business, and has cloud partnerships with both Amazon Web Services and Google. The company is also certified with E-Rate and as a woman-owned business to provide storage and networking products and services to the state of Texas.
12. Single Point Global
Location: Ashburn, Va.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 220.13 percent
Top Executive: Gregory Browning, Principal, CEO
Single Point Global is a provider of a full range of managed services for cloud computing, IT security, and IT optimization. The company has a strong focus on managed help desk, network connectivity, unified communications, cybersecurity, colocation, and cloud computing over Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and private virtual cloud solutions. Its SinglePoint Smart Hands service is aimed at the work from home market to provide a single point of contact for managing clients‘ work with data centers in the norther Virginia and Austin, Texas markets.
11. Nordicom Technologies
Location: Novi, Mich.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 229.15 percent
Top Executive: Miles Olson, CEO
Nordicom Technologies is an AT&T Champion Solution provider, and offers a full range of professional, managed, and support services with solutions spanning such areas as internet and WAN networking, business voice, cybersecurity, cloud, enterprise mobility, and IoT. It offers a wide range of services including consulting, engineering, and design services; project management services; staging, kitting, and integration services; and technology lifecycle management.
10. AllCloud
Location: San Francisco
Two-Year Growth Rate: 231.15 percent
Top Executive: Eran Gil, CEO
Managed services provider AllCloud has consulting and services in four key areas. The company is a premier consulting partner with Amazon Web Services, a Salesforce platinum consulting partner, a NetSuite partner with expertise across the full ERP business spectrum, and a provider of big data, analytics, and machine learning capabilities. AllCloud in December also raised $18 million in equity funding, including an investment from Salesforce Ventures, which the company is using to expand its global cloud services business.
9. Elevate Technology Group
Location: Portland
Website: https://elevatetechgroup.com/
Two-Year Growth Rate: 240.00 percent
Top Executive: Geoff Turner, CEO
Elevate Technology Group, formerly known as Now Nerd, is a gold-level Microsoft partner and MSP with a focus on services, including managed IT services, 24x7 remote support, custom software and application development, and server and networking infrastructure consulting and engineering.
8. Trust Technology Solutions
Location: Cooper City, Fla.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 290.91 percent
Top Executive: Armando Binelo, President, CEO
Trust Technology Solutions is a 20-plus-year managed service provider and consultant offering a wide range of services including help desk services, data protection, business IT support, hardware-as-a-service, hosting services, vendor management, voice over IP, security, and cloud computing.
7. Onica Group
Location: Santa Monica, Calif.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 305.94 percent
Top Executive: Stephen Garden, CEO
Onica, which in December 2019 was acquired by Rackspace, is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) premier consulting partner and AWS managed service provider. The acquisition gave Rackspace new cloud-native AWS capabilities, competencies and customers with the ability to serve clients via offices across the U.S. and Canada. Onica provides services around cloud adoption, application modernization, data and analytics, managed cloud operations, cloud cost optimization, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud application development, and IoT.
6. Prescriptive Data Solutions
Location: Allen, Texas
Two-Year Growth Rate: 356.52 percent
Top Executive: Terry Murray, President
Prescriptive Data Solutions offers Microsoft 365 and Azure migration services for small and midsized organizations as well as disaster recovery as a service for public and private clouds. Working with both business and state, local, and education clients, the company also offers a wide range of networking, security, and on-premises, cloud and hybrid infrastructure services.
5. DVBE Technology Group
Location: Sacramento, Calif.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 358.60 percent
Top Executive: Richard McKinnon, CEO
DVBE Technology Group brings a wide range of consulting and integration experience to clients around cloud with support for any on-premises or public cloud environment, devops, security, telecommunications, storage, and project management. DVBE, true to its name which is also an acronym for disabled veteran business enterprise, works with government organizations in every state.
4. QOS Networks
Location: Irvine, Calif.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 366.67 percent
Top Executive: Frank Cittadino, CEO
QOS was founded in 2012 with a focus on networking, and is now focused on edge tech-enabled managed services with its internally developed and proprietary software. The company offers solutions for data and analytics from the edge using such technologies such as SDN, uCPE, 5G, and self-healing networks to help drive multi-cloud adoption, including intelligent network management as the base for three cloud-based applications: inHealth network automation, inProtect network security, and inConnect network integration.
3. ImageNet Consulting
Location: Oklahoma City, Okla.
Two-Year Growth Rate: 370.42 percent
Top Executive: Pat Russell, President, CEO
ImageNet Consulting started in 1956 as a typewriter repair company, but over the years cycled through the copier and printer businesses to become a leading provider of enterprise content management, copy and print, mobile workforce management, digital signage, conferencing, and CCTV solutions along with managed IT services, with locations throughout the southeastern and south central U.S. The solution provider has continued to grow both organically and via two MSP acquisitions in the past 12 months.
2. Mission Cloud Services
Location: Los Angeles
Two-Year Growth Rate: 795.05 percent
Top Executive: Simon Anderson, Founder, Chairman, CEO
Mission Cloud Services is a managed cloud services provider and an Amazon Web Services premier consulting partner which was formed in 2018 by the merger of three former AWS partner network advanced consulting partners Reliam, Stratalux, and G2 Tech Group. Mission provides a full range of AWS capabilities to clients across the country, including managed AWS cloud, managed devops, managed application performance management, AWS migrations, AWS cloud and serverless consulting, container consulting, and optimization and governance.
1. Converge Technology Solutions
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Website: https://convergetp.com/
Two-Year Growth Rate: 1202.94%
Top Executive: Shaun Maine, CEO
Converge Technology Solutions was founded in 2016, and has grown rapidly via a dozen or so solution provider acquisitions including Corus360, Northern Micro, Key Information Systems and Lighthouse Computer Services, giving it a client base that reaches across the U.S. and Canada as well as the U.K. The company, which is publicly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, brings to its clients such capabilities as advanced data analytics, infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service cloud services, cybersecurity, digital infrastructure and digital transformation services, and IT talent recruitment services.