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44 Marks Group Wealth Management

Ben Marks, left, and John Feste


MARKS GROUP WEALTH MANAGEMENT

WE ASKED MANAGING
PRINCIPAL JOHN FESTE:
Whats your strategy to be able to GROWTH RATE
hire enough qualified workers to
Whats one business decision you keep up with your growth? We are in 42.2%
made in the past three years thats a unique position in the marketplace 2013 revenue: $3,129,082
been critical to your firms growth? In as an independent, employee-owned 2014 revenue: $3,799,665
2014 we doubled our office space. We firm. Given the unique ownership 2015 revenue: $4,449,535
recognized that industry trends had structure and our collaborative Top executives: Ben Marks, John Feste
changed and traditional Wall Street team approach, this model is an Founded: 2008
firms were losing market share while attractive alternative for investment Business: Investment management
independent advisory firms continued professionals. It has provided us the Employees at end of 2013: Eight; now:
to grow. opportunity to be selective when 12
hiring and find what we believe is
the best local talent.

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FASTEST-GROWING PRIVATE COMPANIES
METRO-AREA PRIVATE COMPANIES RANKED BY REVENUE GROWTH

Name / Rank in 2015 (* not ranked) Address Growth 2015


Website Phone rate revenue Business description1 Top executive(s), executive email(s)

601 Carlson Pkwy. #150


26 SkyWater Search Partners
skywatersearch.com
* Hopkins, MN 55305
952-767-9000
83.17%
$5.82
million
Executive search firm Tony Fornetti; Kurt Rakos; Paul Beard

Logistics Planning Services 731 Bielenberg Dr.


$79.31
27 27 Woodbury, MN 55125 77.43%
million
Logistics company Kirsten Hall, khall@shiplps.com
shiplps.com 877-539-7447
100 Washington Ave. S #1100
28 JAMF Software 14
Minneapolis, MN 55401 77.43%
$66.8
IT services
Zach Halmstad; Dean Hager,
jamfsoftware.com million dean.hager@jamfsoftware.com; Chip Pearson
612-677-7075
1585 Thomas Center Dr. #101
29 All In One Accounting Inc.
allinoneaccounting.com
* Eagan, MN 55122
651-289-7660
73.95%
$1.91
million
Accounting solutions Heide Olson, heide@allinoneaccounting.com

1270 Eagan Industrial Rd. #150


30 Aviont
avionte.com
* Eagan, MN 55121
651-556-2121
70.78%
$13.6
million
Provides staffing software solutions to the HR
industry
John Long, jlong@avionte.com

3600 Minnesota Dr. #150


31 Emergent Networks 43
Edina, MN 55435 69.94%
$23.86
IT consulting company Jamie Anderson
emergentnetworks.com million
612-213-2600
4350 Baker Rd. #350
32 NTY Franchise Co. 28
Minnetonka, MN 55343 61.9%
$5.93
Franchisor of resale retail brands Ron Olson; Chad Olson, colson@ntyfranchise.com
ntyfranchise.com million
866-261-2030
151 Cliff Rd. E
33 Innovative Office Solutions
innovativeos.com
* Burnsville, MN 55337
952-808-9900
61.6%
$87.35
million
Provider of office, furniture, facility, print and
technology solutions
Jennifer Smith, jsmith@innovativeos.com

4208 Park Glen Rd.


34 Screenfeed 34
Minneapolis, MN 55416 57.61%
$3.17
Creators of licensed content for digital media Jeremy Gavin
screenfeed.com million
800-461-3002
900 2nd Ave. S #430 Greg Dougherty,
35 Super Go Faster
supergofaster.com
* Minneapolis, MN 55402
612-827-3056
56.84%
$12
million
Software consulting greg.dougherty@supergofaster.com; Ryan
Danielson, ryan.danielsen@supergofaster.com
920 2nd Ave. S #650
36 ThreeBridge Solutions 5
Minneapolis, MN 55402 56.15%
$45.84
IT and management consulting Jim Kelly, jkelly@threebridge.com; Jason Elder
threebridge.com million
651-321-4080
1660 S. Hwy. 100 #415
37 tap|QA
tapqa.com
* St. Louis Park, MN 55416
952-405-9728
56.01%
$12.09
million
Software quality assurance management,
analysis and software test consulting services
Michael Faulise; Kimberly Bunda; Tim Guilfoil,
tguilfoil@tapqa.com

5270 W. 84th St. #550


38 C2 Solutions 29
Bloomington, MN 55437 48.57%
$16.29
IT consulting firm Dave Rowe; Dean Nelson; Clint Sawinski
c2its.com million
763-333-2489
1600 Utica Ave. S #120
39 Coherent Solutions 21
St. Louis Park, MN 55416 48.09%
$25.43 Custom application development and
Igor Epshteyn, igore@coherentsolutions.com
coherentsolutions.com million business intelligence consulting
612-279-6262
225 Bridgepoint Dr.
40 Schadegg Mechanical Inc.
schadegg-mech.com
* South St. Paul, MN 55075
651-292-9933
47.59%
$78.5
million
Mechanical, HVAC, plumbing and service
contracting firm
Daniel Schadegg, dschadegg@schadegg-mech.com

9800 Bren Rd. E #450


41 Horizontal Integration 36
Minnetonka, MN 55343 47.46%
$65.39 Digital strategy, creative design, web Jeremy Langevin; Chris Staley; Sabin Ephrem,
horizontalintegration.com million development and staffing solutions sephrem@horizontalintegration.com
612-392-7580
615 N. 3rd St.
42 Atomic Data 42
Minneapolis, MN 55401 44.84%
$20.17
IT consulting firm
Jim Wolford, info@atomicdata.com; Larry
atomicdata.com million Patterson; Dr. John Dowdle
612-466-2000
4510 Heatherwood Rd.
43 Marco 39
St. Cloud, MN 56301 44.48%
$219.99
Technology services provider Jeff Gau, jeffg@marconet.com
marconet.com million
800-892-8548
Marks Group Wealth 4350 Baker Rd. #245
$4.45 Ben Marks, ben.marks@marksgroup.com; John
44 Management * Minnetonka, MN 55343 42.2%
million
Investment management
Feste, john.feste@marksgroup.com
marksgroup.com 952-582-6100
1101 E. 78th St. #200
45 Loffler Cos. Inc.
loffler.com
* Bloomington, MN 55420
952-925-6800
38.53%
$94.13
million
Business technology and services Jim Loffler, jloffler@loffler.com

8030 Old Cedar Ave. #225


46 Javen Technologies Inc.
javentechnologies.com
* Bloomington, MN 55425
952-698-4454
33.72%
$13.66
million
IT consulting company Venkat Kota, vkota@javentechnologies.com

4570 W. 77th St. #350


47 Lifesprk
lifesprk.com
* Edina, MN 55435
952-345-8770
31.48%
$14.43
million
Senior care provider Joel Theisen, shineon@lifesprk.com

Summit Information 2935 Waters Rd. #200


$14.91 Reseller of networking, server and storage
48 Resources Inc. * Eagan, MN 55121 27.54%
million hardware
Dick Noble
summitir.com 800-788-4665
4500 Park Glen Rd. #200
49 Fishbowl Solutions
fishbowlsolutions.com
* St. Louis Park, MN 55416
952-465-3400
26.83%
$8.95
million
IT consulting firm Tim Gruidl

9555 James Ave. S


50 The Nerdery 41
Bloomington, MN 55431 25.01%
$64.8 Custom software design and development
Tom O'Neill, tom.oneill@nerdery.com
nerdery.com million company
877-664-6373
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