Internally, this plan is called the "10 in 10" strategy, according to a senior Sparkhound executive. "Our vision is 10 offices and being more than $100 million in the next 10 years," said Noah Boudreaux, a nine-year company veteran who was recently named to the new position of Chief Administrative Officer.

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Boudreaux was previously the chief operating officer, a position now held by Patrick Thompson, who started his career at Accenture. Thompson also served in management positions at healthcare services company Amedisys and construction specialist Turner Industries.

"The COO and CAO roles will enable us to continue building upon our mission to make a meaningful impact in our customers' businesses and employees' professional development, while growing our IT services and support footprint," said Sparkhound President and CEO Shawn Usher, commenting on the appointments at the end of October.

The new management structure, along with another key hire who brings customer-side experience, are meant to accelerate Sparkhound's ability to achieve its ambitious goal—a revenue mark few entrepreneurs (let alone technology solution providers) ever manage to reach, Boudreaux said.

"We were looking for exposure to other companies that have gone through similar periods of aggressive growth," he said.

As CAO, Boudreaux's focus is on introducing process changes and new technologies that will help Sparkhound scale. "We need to make sure that each process is aligned with the company that we want to be 10 years from now," he said.

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