Sgis
wins multiple diversitybusiness.com awards
San Diego, California (January 15, 2008)
– SGIS, a nationally-recognized technical solutions company, announced today
that it has been selected as one of the top businesses in the nation for 2007 by
DiversityBusiness.com, having received several awards. SGIS was ranked #7 on the Top 100 Small
Business in California list, #11 on the Top 100 8(a)
Businesses in America list, #23 on the Top 100 Diversity-Owned Businesses in
California list, #131 on the Top 500 Small Businesses in America list and #169
on the Top 500 Diversity-Owned Businesses in America list.
“We are
extremely honored to be distinguished with these highly esteemed awards,” said
SGIS CEO Hany Girgis. “These awards, and all SGIS accomplishments,
are directly attributed to our hardworking and dedicated employees and loyal
customers. We thank them all and look forward to continued success in the years to come.”
The lists are produced annually by DiversityBusiness.com and represent the nation’s
top multicultural earners and challenge the long-held notion that a small business
is small or insignificant.
SGIS
provides services and solutions that defend the United States and its citizens from
threats, provides advanced tools to soldiers who defend the nation and assists
government agencies in running their business more effectively. SGIS has teamed with numerous organizations
within the Intelligence, Homeland Security, Defense and Space communities to
form alliances needed for successful missions.
The company specializes in the areas of Information Technology,
Engineering, Intelligence Solutions, Global Telecommunications and
Logistics. SGIS partnered with the
United States Government and joined the Counterterrorism and
Counterintelligence effort, quickly becoming a major component of several
government agencies’ support teams. SGIS
also provides some of the highest quality Intelligence Analysis and Border
Control services available in the country, often deploying with the troops they
support. The company’s teams of highly
trained and security-cleared experts work diligently to prevent terrorist
attacks within the United
States and reduce our country’s
vulnerability to terrorism. SGIS
supports critical services for the United States Military, the Department of
Defense (DoD), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
to name a few. SGIS provides services at
the state and local levels as well.
SGIS has
received many highly regarded national and state awards, including being
selected for the Inc. 500, Inc. Magazine’s
list of the 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Nation in 2007 and
ranking #2 on Washington Technology’s 2007
Fast 50 list of the Fastest-Growing Government IT Companies. In 2006, SGIS was awarded the Governor’s
Entrepreneurship Award in Florida’s Mega
Market and was also ranked the 13th Fastest Growing New Company in America on Entrepreneur
Magazine and PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Hot 100 List.
SGIS currently has fourteen offices
throughout the United States,
with corporate headquarters located in San
Diego, California.
For more information on SGIS, please visit us on the Web
at www.SGIS.com.
About DiversityBusiness.com
Launched in 1999, with
over 35,000 members DiversityBusiness.com is the largest organization of
diversity-owned businesses throughout the United States that provides goods
and services to Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and colleges and
universities. Members use the website’s technology
to find and track new business opportunities. It also produces the country’s largest
conference on diversity education and training for major corporations and small
businesses. Its research on top
businesses appears in Fortune, Forbes, Business Week and numerous other magazines and media
publications. The website has gained
national recognition and has won numerous awards for its content and design.
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