Not a bad year for Leah Brown.

In June, Ernst & Young named her an entrepreneur of the year for the Carolinas.

Today, Inc. Magazine ranked the Cary company she founded 5 years ago No. 92 on its list of the country's fastest-growing private companies. That is the highest spot for a Triangle company on this year's annual list.

A10 helps manage clinical trials for large pharmaceutical companies and on-site health clinics for government agencies and other customers. It employs about 300 people and continues to hire.

The Inc. 500 list is based percentage revenue growth over the past three years. A10's revenue increased to $8.3 million last year, up 2,714 percent, the magazine reported, using data supplied by the company.

Grace Ueng's passion, energy and inspiring recovery from a horrible bike accident five years ago are getting some national attention.

Inc. magazine included a two-page "CEO Passions" profile on Ueng in its latest issue, including a photo of her cycling with her former triathlon coach.

Ueng is head of a Cary-based consulting firm, Savvy Marketing Group, and works with numerous Triangle corporations and organizations. She also occasionally writes about marketing, CEO athletes and entrepreneurs for our Sunday Work&Money section.

Her bike accident in California broke her neck and led to months of therapy and a long road to recovery. That journey also was featured in a April 2006 Work&Money story.  

"The bike represents a comeback to me," she told Inc. "The ripple effect of my accident has been a revived passion for life."

Read the Inc. story here.

Ueng also recently started a blog about issues that small, fast-growing companies face. Here more here.

Inc. magazine's latest annual list of the nation's 5,000 fastest-growing private companies contains at least one typo.

The list put Cary-based L&S Retail Ventures, owner of the online greeting card store InvitationBox.com, at No. 2,997. But that was based on revenue growth using 2008 revenue of $1.7 million.

The 12-employee company's revenue last year was actually $2.7 million, which would have pushed up L&S to No. 1,579.

CEO Jon LaNasa noticed the mistake when he received a copy of the magazine in the mail Wednesday and checked the data online. He called Inc. immediately.