Atrio Systems capitalizes on 100 percent growth, will add 3-4 jobs

Brian Demoe took a number of cues from some of his past lives to make Atrio Systems what it is today.

The entrepreneur combined his backgrounds in education, software engineering and sales to create the software consulting firm. The downtown Pontiac-based company now employs 20 people and another 20 independent contractors on top of that. That's up from just, well, Demoe eight years ago.

"Growth is absolutely what we're all about," Demoe says. "We want to grow at least 50 percent this year."

That would be down a little from recent years where its revenues grew anywhere between 80 and 100 percent annually. Still, growth has allowed Atrio to add three people and few contractors this year. Demoe expects to create another 3-4 jobs within the next year.

The firm has been diversifying its cliental beyond the automotive industry and is hoping to continue doing that in the next few years. It's also aiming to grow by improving its performance on existing work to organically make more.

"We've grown a lot and we hope to continue that," Demoe says.

Source: Brian Demoe, managing partner of Atrio Systrems
Writer: Jon Zemke
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