{"id":4697,"date":"2012-06-21T07:01:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T11:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2012-06-21T07:01:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T11:01:52","slug":"apparatus-ranks-among-indys-fastest-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2012\/06\/21\/apparatus-ranks-among-indys-fastest-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparatus ranks among Indy&#039;s fastest growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.apparatus.net\/\">Apparatus<\/a>, the advanced IT consulting and managed service company founded by <strong>Kelly Pfledderer &#8217;96<\/strong>, is\u00a0part of\u00a0the Indianapolis-area&#8217;s fastest growing private companies, per the <em>Indianapolis Business Journal&#8217;s<\/em> annual\u00a0ranking released this week.\u00a0 Companies that made the list were ranked by percentage of revenue growth from fiscal years 2009 \u2013 2011, revenue increase each year, and must be an independent, privately held corporation, proprietorship, or partnership.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apparatus&#8217; revenue growth increased by 85% and the number of employees grew from 66 to 120 full time employees from 2009 &#8211; 2011.\u00a0 Kelly, who is President and CEO, founded Apparatus in 1999 with $10K in personal funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kelly grew up in Montgomery County, was a German major at Wabash, and is a current Wabash College Trustee.\u00a0 Congratulations, Kelly and Apparatus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparatus, the advanced IT consulting and managed service company founded by Kelly Pfledderer &#8217;96, is\u00a0part of\u00a0the Indianapolis-area&#8217;s fastest growing private companies, per the Indianapolis Business Journal&#8217;s annual\u00a0ranking released this week.\u00a0 Companies that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}