July 2, 2003
London, UK. At the annual Tornado Insider Upstart Europe conference in London, Tridion has been awarded with the number one position in the '2003 Tornado100’ list. This list features Europe’s top 100 emerging companies in the European IT and biotech sectors.
The selection criteria favoured companies, which have clearly demonstrated that the technology they are commercialising today will change the way things are done tomorrow. The judging panel consisted of Keith Arundale, business development and venture capital leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jeffrey Hurlburt, partner at Dorsey & Whitney and Carl Allen, director venture capital at Forrester Research. The judges based their decisions on corporate presentations at the Upstart conference, as well as on key financial, customer and product information supplied by the companies.
"We were impressed with the standard of all eight finalists in the Tornado Insider 100. Our supreme award went to the business that we thought had everything: innovative technology in an expanding market, a strong management team with an excellent execution track record, and a business model that has worked out the best channels to market. For this award, we selected Tridion,” said Carl Allen, director venture capital at Forrester Research Timothy Weeks, senior research analyst at Tornado Insider: “The quality of Tornado100 companies presenting and the wide cross section of countries and sectors represented indicate a vibrant, venture-backed, entrepreneurial culture in Europe that has weathered the tech meltdown by learning the art of selling to complement the science of innovation.”
"We are very pleased with the Tornado100 award. It is recognition for the people at Tridion," said Roland Slot, CEO of Tridion. "In the four years of our existence we have enabled more than 250 organisations to turn our innovative technology into business value. This customer focus has already made us Europe’s leading enterprise content management vendor. The Tornado100 award will definitely encourage us to continue our strategy of controlled growth and customer satisfaction."