WingGate Travel, Inc.

Gross Revenue: 2006: $109,438,000 2003: $13,500,000 Growth: 710.65% Full-time employees: 62

“Committed to providing premier travel management services to each and every customer,” WingGate assists with the travel needs of a wide range of clients, from tourists to military personnel. In addition to offering online booking, an international rate desk, car rental programs for business travel, destination specials and cruise discounts for leisure travels, WingGate contracts with the Department of Defense, specializing in travel for federal, state and local government. “Customer satisfaction is our number one goal. We want to provide local customer service with a global capability,” says President & CEO Young Sexton, who founded the Overland Park agency in 1991.

 

?Nancy Lewis, Young Sexton and Burton Sexton.
1st Year

Saicon Consultants, Inc. 

Gross Revenue: 2006: $12,500,0002003: $1,769,712 Growth: 606.33% Full-time employees: 155

As its tenth anniversary approaches, Saicon Consultants, Inc. continues to open new locations and increase revenues. “The economy and the job market,” have enhanced business  growth for the Overland Park IT services firm as has “strategic planning by the management” according to CEO Ramesh Lokre. Founded by Swati Yelmar in 1998, Saicon Consultants offers clients across the country a spectrum of software services, including enterprise resource planning, server development, administrative and staffing solutions. Saicon operates from Overland Park headquarters, with a branch office in Fort Smith, AR, as well as a location in India, Saicon India Consultants, Ltd.

Clickspeed

Gross Revenue:2006: $3,187,214 2003: $482,219 Growth: 560.95% Full-time employees: 18

Less than six years ago, Clickspeed was but “two guys, a laptop, an idea, and a passion for the Internet,” recalls CEO Matthew Kirk. He and co-founder Herb Sih began the interactive marketing agency from an Overland Park office space that was less than 500 square feet and “less than glamorous to say the least.” The firm has excelled in offering Internet marketing, lead generation and software solutions to aid profitable growth, and in so doing, the company has grown profitably itself. Kirk calls his employees, “the secret to our success.” The firm remains in Overland Park (in a new, presumably larger, office).

?Herb Sih and Matthew Kirk
1st Year