By Marcia Shottenkirk
The Journal Record 

KeyBridge Technologies, Inc. was established in 2002 to provide professional and technical services that organizations choose to obtain from the outside.

“Information technology and technical training services are our forte,” said Simon Hsu, president and founder of KeyBridge.

“We want to be the company of choice as a premier provider and private sectors,” he said. “We started out in the area of information technology and technical training services, and we plan to expand into new lines of business, one at a time.”

In 2005, the company’s revenue was nearly $1.9 million. Only two years later, revenue had skyrocketed to $11 million- a difference of $9.5 million and a growth of more than 500 percent. It has also increased its employees from 22 to 94.

The company is proud that more than 50 percent of its employees are veterans and more than 50 percent are ethnic minorities. In addition, 100 percent of its revenue comes from out-of-state customers or federal government agencies.

Hsu said the company’s growth, although not unexpected, has been a bit of a surprise. “We have certainly worked very hard since the day we started the business. We were confident that we would grow pretty fast. We just didn’t know how fast we would grow.”

Though many companies are at the national level in the same line of business as KeyBridge, Hsu said his philosophy is not to spend time working to compete with them but rather learn from them.

“We focus more on what we can do to improve and better ourselves. We spend a lot of energy on figuring out how we can repeat our success in the past and consistently provide quality services.”

As his company continues to grow, Hsu said he plans to keep it in Oklahoma.

“With the help of technology, it does not really matter where our corporate office is located when we do business all over the country. Oklahoma is the place we call home.”

He also has been impressed with Oklahoma’s work force. “Our company headquarters is in Oklahoma City, which is an easy compftorble commute for professional talents from several great communities, such as Norman, Edmond and Moore.”

The state’s higher education institutions are also a draw for Hsu.

“From those, we can continue to recruit young and passionate professionals,” he said.

And Hsu see his company as having an even greater role in the business community.

“No matter how big or small, it is our corporate aspiration to play a role in growing the Oklahoma economy by keeping federal funds for Oklahoma as well as bringing revenue into state by providing services to state, federal or private customers outside the state.

“We have been blessed in the last few years, and we are genuinely grateful for everything we have. Rather than focusing on rapid growth, our immediate goal is to stabilize out company and build an infrastructure that will allow us to have solid, steady growth for many years to come.”

For more information, visit www.keybridgeti.com

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