Slideshow: Fastest-growing companies

Portland Business Journal
Robert Goldfield, Special sections editor
June 23, 2011

Of the special sections I've edited over the course of the year, the Fastest-Growing Private 100 Companies is my favorite.

The list it contains gives a snapshot look of companies achieving great things despite a difficult economy. The section also allows me to learn about companies that I don't know well.

This year, for example, I learned about Velotech, a Portland-based e-tailer of bike gear for road cyclists. And I found out about Conducive Technology, whose website FlightStats.com updates users on flight delays and airport weather conditions.

This slideshow illustrates those companies and more, including the top three businesses on this year's list and all of this year's winners of our Lighthouse Award, given to those companies that have made it onto the list five years in a row.

Check back on Friday afternoon for another slideshow capturing the scene at the Business Journal's 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies' event, held Thursday evening at the Portland Art Museum and attended by more than 800 people.

Caption: John Hall, senior vice president of EthicsPoint Inc., said demand for the Portland company's products never wavered during the recession. Those products involve software that allows companies to integrate their governance, risk and compliance processes. EthicsPoint's 2010 revenue of $20.3 million capped three-year growth of 56.6 percent — good enough for the No. 46 spot on the fastest-growing list and the receipt of a Lighthouse Award.