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FourthWave, LLC Selected for 2004 Indiana Growth 100 Award

Fort Wayne, IN - FourthWave, LLC, a Fort Wayne-based holding company with multiple operating subsidiaries, received a Growth 100 Recognition Award from the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the eleventh annual Growth 100 Dinner and Awards Banquet on Wednesday, October 27, in Indianapolis.

The Johnson Center, a division of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, selected 88 of Indiana's leading high-potential, high-growth companies for this year's Growth 100 Awards. Growth 100 nominees must be privately-held Indiana businesses that have a minimum of $500,000 in sales or that have raised significant outside funding.

"This year's 2004 Growth 100 awardees have a combined 2003 sales total of more than $1.17 billion, with an incredible growth rate averaging 58 percent," said Tom Hustad, interim Director of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at IU's Kelley School of Business.   "To be able to build this type of momentum in such a challenging economic climate is quite a feat."

FourthWave President Thomas Teague stated that his company was honored to be among the recipients. "The list of Growth 100 Award winners includes some of the most prestigious businesses in the state," Teague said. "We're proud to be among them, especially given the high value we place on economic and community development endeavors."

As a holding company with multiple operating subsidiaries, the mission of FourthWave is to deliver world-class technology solutions that allow clients to achieve their goals sooner and more cost effectively than ever before. SentryPoints serves cities, regional organizations, and private sector clients, providing homeland security and public safety software and systems; MetroMetrics provides non-emergency software and consulting to governments; and VersiTech is focused exclusively on threat and vulnerability assessment and public safety software and services for universities.