ACG Atlanta, the Atlanta Chapter of The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), a global professional organization with the mission of Driving Middle-Market Growth^® with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and private investment, today announced the 2014 Georgia Fast 40, representing the top 40 fastest growing middle-market companies in Georgia.

"We were very impressed with the caliber of companies that were nominated this year, as we had the largest applicant pool in the history of the event," stated Dan Bauer, ACG Atlanta Chapter President and CFO of CardioMEMS. "These companies exemplify ACG's focus on Middle-Market Growth and represent over 13,000 added jobs." Patrick Putman, Chairman of the 2014 Georgia Fast 40 Awards and Managing Director for The PrivateBank agreed. "The lower Middle-Market honorees had over a 200% weighted growth rate, and the upper Middle Market honorees had more than a 140% weighted growth rate," stated Putman.

Criteria and selection for the award includes the following: 1) eligible companies must be for profit and headquartered in Georgia, 2) most recent year-end revenues ranging from $15 million to $500 million, and 3) three years of verifiable revenue and employment growth. The applicants' financials were validated by national accounting firm and founding Diamond sponsor, Cherry Bekaert LLP, and an ACG Selection Committee evaluated each application and conducted in-person interviews with all qualified applicants. 

The honored companies include: 

LOWER MIDDLE-MARKET HONOREES INCLUDE (Revenues of $15M to $60M):

4th Source 
Angel Oak Capital Advisors 
Brickstream 
Cardlytics 
Connectivity Wireless Solutions 
Contact At Once! 
Efreightsolutions Holdings, LLC 
EndoChoice, Inc. 
eVestment 
Five Point Partners, LLC 
Kabbage, Inc. 
Midtown Consulting Group 
MiMedx Group, Inc. 
Phobio, LLC 
Scheduling Institute, Inc. 
Sharecare 
Sterling Restaurants, LLC 
Strategic Systems & Technology Corp. 
United Mobile Solutions 
VDart Inc

UPPER MIDDLE-MARKET HONOREES INCLUDE (Revenues of $60M to $500M):

ACS Group (American CyberSystems, Inc.) 
Alliance Bus Group, Inc. 
American Global Logistics 
BIG TIME PRODUCTS 
Brightree LLC 
Control Southern Inc 
Curant Health 
DTI 
Fortune-Johnson, Inc. 
Halperns' Steak and Seafood 
Hire Dynamics LLC 
Innotrac Corporation 
Liaison Technologies 
LocumTenens.com, LLC 
Onepath Systems 
PowerPlan Inc. 
Pro View Foods, LLC 
Robert Bowden, Inc. 
SecurAmerica, LLC 
T. D. Farrell Construction, Inc.

The Awards will be presented to honorees at the Georgia Fast 40 Awards Dinner and Gala on June 19, 2014, where guests will enjoy an evening of celebration with Honorees and 500+ of the leaders of the Georgia business community. While still available, tables and single tickets can be purchased online, www.acgatlanta.org. Honorees will also be highlighted in an editorial feature in the August issue of Georgia Trend magazine.