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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowEvent-planning powerhouse VMS Inc. plans to invest more than $1.5 million to expand its Indianapolis operation and create as many as 102 jobs over the next four years, state officials said Friday morning.
The locally based company now employs more than 135 and plans to begin hiring additional workers during the first quarter.
Founded in 1995 by Mandy Moore and Neal Rothermel as a meeting planning firm, VMS found a niche in the highly regulated pharmaceutical and biotech industries and grew from there.
It now helps clients manage health care meetings and also assists with strategic marketing, medical-education and patient-adherence initiatives.
"A life science hub, Indiana offers easy access to a number of our clients,” VMS President Andrea Heslin Smiley said in a prepared statement. “Plus, it's home."
Indiana Economic Development Corp. offered the company about $1 million in performance-based tax credits based on its job creation plans. The city of Indianapolis and Develop Indy will support a property tax abatement request with the Metropolitan Development Commission.
VMS has made the Inc. 500 list of the country’s fastest-growing companies at least three times. In 2007, it reported annual revenue of $30 million a staff of about 70. More recent financial results were not immediately available.
In 2004, it spun off a related firm—VMS Medical Inc, which organizes small, instructional seminars for pharmaceutical companies.
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