Business: Recruits patients for clients' clinical trials or to promote sales of their drugs or medical devices. The company uses a novel approach that includes steering patients to a call center where appointments are booked with physicians involved with clients' trials or using their products.
Founded: 1999
Headquarters: Eden Prairie
Website: www.threewire.com
Executive: Founder and CEO Mark Summers
Employees: 67
2007 revenue: $6.5 million
Quote: "Hours and hours of high anxiety interspersed with brief periods of sheer terror." -- Summers, using a saying with which he once described his days as a naval flight officer to describe his company's difficult time in 2004.
