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very paper- and mail-based process andturned it into an efficient, electronicprocess. In doing so, with the volume ofpaper we have removed from the confir-mation process, Confirmation.com savesour planet more than 22,000 pounds ofpaper, 213,000 gallons of wastewater,6,500 gallons of gasoline, 373,000 poundsof greenhouse gases and 65,000 squarefeet of deforestation per year.”

CONEXESS GROUP LLC2817 West End Ave. (Nashville)Website: conexess.comCEO: Jerry BakerBackground: Conexess Group LLC wasfounded two years ago and works in staff

augmentation in in-formation technologyand accounting. It cov-ers Nashville, Detroitand Richmond, Va.Employees: 40Baker speaks: “We offerour employees the abil-ity to become a partnerin the business. This

allows our team to feel involved in thedecisions we make regarding the direc-tion of our company as well as givingthem the entrepreneurial journey with-out the huge risk.”

CORECOMMERCE144 SE. Parkway, Suite 260 (Franklin)Website: corecommerce.comCEO: Matt DeLong

Background: CoreCom-merce provides “easy-to-use tools to quicklyset up your own onlinestore — no coding ordesign experience re-quired. The companyalso gives away 10 free“stores” to nonprofitagencies every month.Employees: 19

DeLong speaks: “When we first enteredthis industry there were several compet-itors, but very little or very slow innova-tion. We were the first to introduce Goo-gle Checkout integration. We also werethe first cloud e-commerce provider tointegrate our software with Twitter andFacebook.”

EMIDS TECHNOLOGIES624 Grassmere Park Drive (Nashville)Website: emids.comCEO: Saurabh SinhaBackground: The CEO has served as aboard member for the Nashville Technol-ogy Council and has spoken to variousmanagement classes at universities,including the Owen Graduate School of

Management at Vander-bilt University and theXavier Institute of Man-agement in Bangalore,India.What company does:Takes complex workflows for health-care ITclients and streamlinesoperations.

Employees: 550Sinha speaks: “We are an IT solutions,services company … that acts as athought-partner for clients.”

HCTEC LLC7105 South Springs Drive, Suite 208(Franklin)Website: hctec.comCEO: Matthew TantBackground: Tant has several years ofexperience in the health-care industry,which has helped him amass clients. Tantwas vice president of business devel-opment at HCCA International, a health-care consulting and staffing firm.What company does: Provides hospitaltechnology staffing and large traininginitiatives for clients.Employees: 125Tant speaks: “We have been blessed tostart a business on the heels of the GreatRecession where government spending

in health-care technology is at an all-timehigh.”

PEAK 10425 Duke Drive, Suite 400 (Franklin)Website: peak10.comCEO: David JonesBackground: Peak 10 is a managed ser-

vices and cloud provid-er via its state-of-the-artdata centers. It hostsand manages complexinformation technologyinfrastructure for arange of clients. ThoughPeak 10 has its head-quarters in North Caro-line, its Nashville loca-tion operates with anentrepreneurial attitude

of its own and strives to maintain “mis-sion-critical data and applications” tohelp businesses operate at peak effi-ciency.Employees: 276Jones speaks: “Peak 10 has experiencedincredible growth over the last 10 yearsin terms of revenue and geographic ex-pansions. Each individual here plays ahuge role in our success.”

PURESAFETY730 Cool Springs Blvd., Suite 400

Matt DeLong

Saurabh Sinha

David Jones

Jerry Baker

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