Marc D. Allan

Studio M Architecture and Planning does a lot of mixed-use work—apartments, garages, offices, retail, entertainment venues and government buildings.

Lucid SG provides staffing services in the technology, engineering and life sciences businesses, which means spending a lot of time trying to find the IT talent its customers need.

Rangeline helps its clients upgrade and modernize their supply chain to be as efficient as possible and to help clients’ employees use their software most effectively.

Under the Prolific umbrella are three subsidiaries: Conquer, a stand-alone media agency; JDA Worldwide, a stand-alone ad agency; and South Carolina-based Chernoff Newman, which specializes in public relations and issues management.

Thomas Rector founded ScreenBroidery, which does screen printing and embroidery and makes promotional merchandise, in his living room 14 years ago.

The company provides fixed-fee, outsourced IT services, usually to companies that aren’t big enough to have their own tech departments.

Stay Dry Roofing CEO John Olinger said that “doing good, clean business and getting referrals from our clients” is fueling his company’s growth.

We asked this year’s Fast 25, almost all of which are in some form of hiring mode, how they’re recruiting employees.