Milwaukee-based Sun Cleaning Systems, 3889 N. 1st St., has made this year's "Inner City 100," a list of America's fastest-growing urban businesses.
For the past nine years, Inc. and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) have teamed up to recognize America's fastest-growing urban businesses through the annual Inner City 100 list.
The 2007 Inner City 100 is out today (online and in print) and its boasts an average four-year revenue growth of 535 percent and record average revenue of $39 million. Nine percent of companies report sales exceeding $100 million.
Sun Cleaning Systems is the only Milwaukee company on the list. Detroit led with six. TerraHealth, in San Antonio, topped the list.
A life-long and passionate community leader and Milwaukeean, Jeff Sherman is a co-founder of OnMilwaukee.
He grew up in Wauwatosa and graduated from Marquette University, as a Warrior. He holds an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University, and is the founding president of Young Professionals of Milwaukee (YPM)/Fuel Milwaukee.
Early in his career, Sherman was one of youngest members of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, and currently is involved in numerous civic and community groups - including board positions at The Wisconsin Center District, Wisconsin Club and Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. He's honored to have been named to The Business Journal's "30 under 30" and Milwaukee Magazine's "35 under 35" lists.
He owns a condo in Downtown and lives in greater Milwaukee with his wife Stephanie, his son, Jake, and daughter Pierce. He's a political, music, sports and news junkie and thinks, for what it's worth, that all new movies should be released in theaters, on demand, online and on DVD simultaneously.
He also thinks you should read OnMilwaukee each and every day.
