1996

THE BEGINNING

1999

First of many awards

2000

Adea makes its mark on Dallas

Dallas Business Journal’s Pacesetters award
FastTech 50 – Fastest Growing Companies in the Dallas Region
Ranked 18th – Fastest Growing US Technical Consulting Firm
Top 10 Finalist for SMU’s Dallas 100 award

2001

Fastest growing company in Dallas

3rd Annual Pacesetters – Fastest Growing Businesses from Dallas Business Journal
Entrepreneur of the Year – Finalist Southwest Region – Abid Abedi by Ernst & Young
SMU’s Dallas 100 – Ranked in the Top 20 Fastest Growing 100 Firms in Dallas / Fort Worth

2002

First of many expansions

2003

Sales reach an excess of $100MM

Adea continues expansion and opens offices in Boston, Houston, Newark, Palo Alto, and Washington DC with a development center in Hyderabad, India
Adea wins the following awards:
US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the year – One of five finalists
Inc. 500 (Inc. Magazine for 2001, first year eligible)
Success Magazine Top 100 Privately Held
Silicon India Magazine Top 100
Indus Business Journal Top 50 Indus Owned Business
Minority Business News Magazine (National and Regional Competition)
Dallas 100
FastTech 50
Purple Squirrel Top 100

2004

Adea acquires NetKraft

Adea acquires Netkraft a SEI CMMI Level 5 provider of outsourced software development, systems integration and application maintenance services based in Bangalore, India.
Adea ’s expands offices to include Fairfax, VA, New Brunswick, NJ and European locations in Paris, France, London, England, Hamburg, Germany and Zurich, Switzerl and.
Ranked key Minority Supplier by American Airlines
Asian 50 – 8th Largest Asian-American Owned Business in the United States

2005

Adea starts RF practice.

Adea starts RF engineering and network optimization and testing services for US based clients.
Adea wins more awards:
AT&T Platinum Supplier Certification
Minority Business Leader Awards – Ranked #2 for Minority Firms by Dallas Business Journal
Entrepreneur of the Year – 2005 National Judge by Ernst & Young
Abid Abedi – Entrepreneur of the Year by the Greater Dallas Indo American Chamber of Commerce
The Global Outsourcing 100 – Adea #1 by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals
Top 10 Finalist for Managed Offshore magazine
Tech Titan Award – Community Hero by Metroplex Technology business council
Top Minority Owned Businesses by Minority Business News Texas
New York Regional MED’s Outstanding Minority Technology Firm by Minority Enterprise Development
Top 100 – Fastest Growing Staffing Firms in America by Purple Squirrel 100
Minority Technology Firm of the Year awarded by US Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency
Excellence Award in Business awarded by US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce

2007

Managed Staffing spun off from Adea.

2010

Adea was sold to Valtech and Managed Staffing moves to new corporate location

Managed Staffing achieves over 300% growth since 2007

2011

2012

333% Growth in first year!

Scarlet Achieves 333% growth whilst adding T-Mobile, Cisco, Huawei to client base. Scarlet Wireless expands corporate office to accommodate new staff.

2013

Canadian Operations opened

Scarlet Wireless realizes a 61% growth and opens a new office in Canada while adding Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel Lucent as clients.
Scarlet Wireless is a SMU Dallas 100 award winner. Saju Korah joins as General Manager and Leslie Pelley joins as Controller. Meanwhile Scarlet Wireless relocates its center in India to a larger facility.

2014

Scarlet is experiencing phenomenal growth of 60% year to date

Rob Wondoloski joins as CTO and corporate office in Dallas expands to accommodate growth. Sprint is also added as a customer.