Sharon Virts Makes Inc. Magazine's List of the 50 fastest-growing women-led companies in America

Sharon Virts, the CEO and founder of FCi Federal, ranked 17 on INC. Magazine’s “The 2015 Impact 50” list. FCi Federal provides operations processing services and adjudication support to the government. The company holds major contracts at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of State.

“To begin, it’s worth taking a moment to appreciate the obvious way in which the Impact 50 are unique: These are the women entrepreneurs of the Inc. 5000 whose companies have shown the largest growth in revenues,” stated INC Magazine. “But it’s also instructive to look at the not-so-obvious ties that bind these women together: the inventiveness, the belief that by starting small you can eventually upend the bigger players, and the embrace of unconventional strategies for growth.”

Virts, who has nearly 30 years of experience in the federal market found FedConsulting (now FCi Federal) in 1991.

Since 2007, her company has grown from 35 employees and $1.5 million in revenue in to over 1,400 employees and $100 million in revenue.

The company and leadership has been recognized yearly since 2012 as one of the “fastest growing” companies in the DC area for several different awards from companies like Ernst and Young and the Washington Business Journal.

In August 2015, FCi ranked in the top 40% of the 2015 Inc. 5000 list.

“We are honored to be included again on this prominent and exclusive list, in good company with the most innovative entrepreneurs and ground-breaking businesses in the nation,” Virts said in a press release. “This is a tremendous recognition of our employees’ hard work and disciplined commitment to doing the work we’re entrusted with.”

Virts is also commissioner on the Loudoun Economic Development Commission, serving as vice chairman.

Photo courtesy of FCi Federal’s Wesbite