Business: Provides conference services, including transportation, registration and event planning and production. Founded: 1984
Headquarters: Minneapolis
Website: www.metroconnections.com
Executives: Founder, president and CEO Sam Thompson and partners David Graves, senior vice president; Mike Graves, senior vice president for conference services, and Tom McCulloch, vice president of marketing.
Employees: 50 full time, 100 part time
2007 revenue: $11.1 million
Quote: "There must have been 30 cancellations that first week." -- Sam Thompson, describing the effect of the decline in air travel following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
