Top 100 Women-Owned Companies
Mike Taylor, Managing Editor
ColoradoBiz magazine
(Exerpts from May 2005 Issue)
. . . CONNECT: The Knowledge Network, an IT consultant [firm] based in Littleton, improved revenues by 149 percent last year . . .
Maureen Clarry, CEO and founder of CONNECT: The Knowledge Network Corp., has seen ups and downs in the tech sector during the 13 years she’s headed her own company, and perhaps that’s why she sounds more pleased than surprised that CONNECT more than doubled revenues in 2004, with sales of $10.7 million.
“Sometimes the technology sector is the fatest declining and the fastest growing,” Clarry says. “2000-2001 was the down period. I think now there’s been a pent-up demand to get a lot of work done that hadn’t been done when people where in kind of a conservative holding pattern. There’s just more demand for the kind of services that we offer.”
Tech-service providers like Clarry’s made dramatic moves upward in this year’s women’s ranking, and, overall, 27 newcomers made the top 100 but companies at the very top of the rankings didn’t budge . . .