Orange County's 1998 Top 50 fastest growing companies

Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@endeavors.org)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:24:39 -0700


http://www.dttus.com/fast500/usfast50/98regions/orange_list98.htm
(Sorry for the formatting). The only surprises are that La Jolla
is now part of the Orange Coast, and Broadcom didn't top the list.

Greg

Orange Coast Technology Fast 50: 1998 List

Fast 500 CEO Summit 5 Year
Rank Company Percent CEO Name City State
Fast 500 Story Growth

Fast 500 List CardioVascular Dynamics,
1 8894% Mike Henson Irvine CA
Inc.
U.S. Fast 50
Programs 2 Telecom Solution, Inc. 6932% Amrik S. Lake CA
Poonian Forest
* Connecticut
3 Marotz, Inc. 6553% William Rancho CA
* Colorado Roetzheim San Diego
Dr. Henry T.
* Eastern 4 Broadcom Corporation 3147% Nicholas, III Irvine CA
Pennsylvania
5 SRS Labs, Inc. 2756% Thomas Yuen Santa Ana CA
* Kansas/Western
Missouri 6 Vista Information 2618% Tom Gay San Diego CA
Solutions, Inc.
* Long Island
7 Litronic, Inc. 1921% Kris Shah Irvine CA
* Los Angeles Daniel A.
8 EPIC Solutions, Inc. 1702% San Diego CA
Crawford
* Maryland
9 WHEB Systems, Inc. 1665% Randy Hawks San Diego CA
* Minnesota
10 The Automatic Answer 1488% David L. Woo San Juan CA
* New England Cap.

* New Jersey 11 Vision Solutions, Inc. 1477% Chris Turner Irvine CA
Pacific Wave
* New York 12 Technologies, Inc. 1463% Irfan Boukai Irvine CA

* North Carolina Powerwave Technologies, Bruce C.
13 1273% Irvine CA
Inc. Edwards
* Orange Coast
14 Dura Pharmaceuticals, 901% Cam L. Garner San Diego CA
1998 Inc.
Winners
15 DAOU Systems, Inc. 875% Georges J. San Diego CA
1997 Daou
Winners 16 ViaSat, Inc. 841% Mark Dankberg Carlsbad CA

* Oregon 17 The Linksys Group, Inc. 825% Victor Tsao Irvine CA

* St. Louis 18 AcuPrint, Inc. 703% Richard Love Carlsbad CA
Regional
19 AstroTerra Corporation 688% Eric Korevaar San Diego CA
* Silicon Valley PairGain Technologies, Charles S.
20 678% Tustin CA
Inc. Strauch
* Tampa Bay
Jeff
* Virginia 21 Aeronex, Inc. 628% Speigelman San Diego CA

* Washington 22 HNC Software, Inc. 604% Robert L. San Diego CA
State North

Intl Fast 50 23 Systems Management 583% Miguel Winder Santa Ana CA
Programs Specialists, Inc.
24 DK&A, Inc. 557% David King San Diego CA
Nomination Form
25 ResMed, Inc. 543% Peter Farrell San Diego CA
Merchandise Catalog
26 Cardiff Software, Inc. 500% Dennis Clerke San CA
Resource Center Marcos

Press Room 27 DataWorks Corporation 472% Stuart San Diego CA
Clifton
Contact Information Charles R.
28 Document Sciences 466% San Diego CA
Harris

29 Blue Sky Software 418% Jorgen Lien La Jolla CA
Corporation

30 Continuus Software 408% John Wark Irvine CA
Corporation

31 EasiRun USA, Inc. 376% Dave Roth San Diego CA

32 STM Wireless, Inc. 368% Emil Irvine CA
Youssefzadeh

33 Datum Inc. 364% Erik van der Irvine CA
Kaay

34 Productivity Enhancement 359% Dan Beadle Laguna CA
Products, Inc. Hills

35 Relsys International, 349% Dave Bajaj Irvine CA
Inc.

36 Imaging Technologies 314% Brian Bonar San Diego CA
Corporation

37 Wonderware Corporation 287% Roy Slavin Irvine CA

38 IDEC Pharmaceuticals 251% William San Diego CA
Corporation Rastetter

39 Engineering/Documentation 249% Greg Corlin Yorba CA
Systems, Inc. Linda

40 Western Digital 241% Charles A. Irvine CA
Haggerty

41 Meade Instruments 240% John C. Irvine CA
Corporation Diebel

42 I-Flow Corporation 225% Donald M. Lake CA
Earhart Forest

43 Stephen P.
tie Peregrine Systems, Inc. 224% Gardner San Diego CA

43
tie Kaynar Technologies Inc. 224% Jordan A. Law Orange CA

44 Quest Software, Inc. 222% Vincent Smith Newport CA
Beach

45
tie Safeskin Corporation 220% Richard Jaffe San Diego CA

45tie Irvine Sensors 220% James D. Costa CA
Corporation Evert Mesa

46 LeadingWay Corporation 206% James Z. Li Irvine CA

47 KONEXX 204% Howard San Diego CA
Gutzmer

48 MotorVac Technologies,
tie Inc. 185% Lee W. Melody Santa Ana CA

48 Lyle C.
tie Invitrogen 182% Turner Carlsbad CA

49 ICU Medical 167% George A. San CA
Lopez Clemente

50 Wintriss Engineering 144% Vic Wintriss San Diego CA
Corporation

Special Category Winners

HID Corporation 1191% Donald A. Irvine CA
Nelson

SELECT Software Tools 982% Stewart Frost Irvine CA

UCAR Composites, Inc. 247% Jerry Anthony Irvine CA