CREOSPAN CLIMBS TO NEW HEIGHTS WITH HELP FROM FIRST MIDWEST BANK BY JOSHUA GUTSTEIN OWNERS BRIJ SHAH (STANDING SECOND FROM RIGHT) AND PRAJ SHAH (CENTER FRONT) WITH THE CREOSPAN TEAM AT THEIR HEADQUARTERS IN SCHAUMBURG, ILLINOIS.
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n business cycles of peaks and valleys, Brij Shah, Praj Shah, and their team have brought Creospan, Inc., to ever greater plateaus. They can look back to starting Creospan in 1999, recalling years of consulting small and mid-sized businesses. They can look ahead to even greater heights adding larger accounts to the mix. Yet to reach such success, Brij and Praj knew they needed more capital. They found it with First Midwest Bank through the help of the MBDA Business Center – Chicago. For years, Creospan built a consistently growing consulting business. Praj, CEO of Creospan, recounts how they got started saying, “We saw a need in the small to mid-sized market segment. Companies were just starting to realize the power of the web and technology as a driver for growth.” From those early years of their small staff serving dot-com companies, Creospan has since grown to average over 100 employees. Over the past few years, they increased revenues by 25% each year by servicing more and more
