Hostway
CEO Lucas Roh Wins 20th Annual KPMG Illinois High Tech
Award [24th November 2003]
CHICAGO, Nov 24, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE)
-- Lucas Roh, CEO of Web-hosting leader Hostway Corporation,
is among seven executives from four companies to win
the 20th annual Illinois High Tech Awards presented
by audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG LLP. A ceremony
tonight at Chicago's Ritz-Carlton Hotel will honor the
winners.
"This is a tremendous honor for
every one of our employees and recognition of their
hard work and achievements of the past five years,"
said Roh, who founded Hostway in 1998 and has led the
company to its current stature among the world's five
largest Web-hosting companies. "It's gratifying
to be included among this year's award winners as we
mark a generation of progress in the Chicago technology
community."
KPMG cited Roh and the other honorees
for "contributing to innovations that have changed
the way we live and work."
Roh said the company will continue its
strategy of global growth and diversification into complementary
managed Internet services. He noted Hostway has at least
doubled its revenues each year while recording a profit
in every quarter of its history, achieving its financial
success without any outside capital.
In addition to Hostway's Roh, the other
Illinois High Tech Award winners are Judson Green, President
and CEO of Navigation Technologies Corporation, Chicago;
Henry Adams, CEO of Sportvision, Inc., Chicago; and
the senior management team of TouchSensor Technologies,
LLC, Wheaton, Ill., including Chief Technology Officer
and Founder David W. Caldwell, President and COO Thomas
M. Schreiber, Director of Operations Scott Roberts,
and Director of Engineering Bahar N. Wadia.
"This year's winners and finalists
have succeeded in continuing their development and commercialization
of products that were not even imagined when we first
launched these awards two decades ago," said Judy
Freeman, partner in charge of KPMG's Information, Communications
and Entertainment practice in Chicago. "They have
combined strong management and a solid strategy with
outstanding products or services that the judges believe
have made significant technological advances."
KPMG's Illinois High Tech Awards remains
the only program that exclusively recognizes and honors
the achievements of the Illinois high-tech industry.
The program was developed to celebrate the success of
Illinois high-tech entrepreneurs who have overcome significant
marketplace risks to successfully develop innovative
products and generate new jobs in Illinois. Previous
winners have led their fields in areas such as modem
technology; Internet-browsers; Internet grocery shopping;
online auctions, and much more.
About Hostway
Hostway
Corporation provides Web hosting and managed technology
services to more than 300,000 customers worldwide. Hostway
helps individuals, small businesses and large enterprises
achieve more value from state-of-the-art Web-based technologies
by reducing their complexity and cost. Founded in 1998,
Hostway is one of the five largest Web hosting companies
in the world with offices in the Americas (Chicago,
Tampa and Vancouver), Europe (London and Amsterdam)
and Asia (Seoul and Sydney). For more information about
Hostway Corporation, please visit www.hostway.com
or call 1-888-290-5170.
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