It’s been a busy 4th quarter within the halls of OnForce. In a matter of just a few months, we’ve opened our new corporate headquarters in Lexington, MA, transferred dozens of employees from New York City, and expanded the company with the hiring of 35 new employees. We also launched our Canadian marketplace, and announced expansion plans for the U.K. & Germany.

With all this change going on, we wanted to celebrate the opening of our new offices and meet members of the OnForce community. We could think of no better way than to host an event and extend some hospitality to our local buyers, providers, partners and media. So we bought some food and wine, tidied the place up a bit, dressed up in our GQ finest, and opened our doors for the first-ever OnForce Open House.

Hosting this event gave us an opportunity to mingle, enjoy some good food and drinks, and show off our new digs (also, to extend an air hockey challenge to anyone brave enough to step into our game room). Above all else, we wanted to rub elbows with local members of the OnForce community . We kicked off the festivities at 4pm that day with green and orange balloons marking the way to our door. Once inside, our guests got to observe us in our natural habitat and tour our new headquarters. Buyers mingled with providers, providers spent time with our exec team, journalists took time to chat us up about our current operations and our future expansion plans. With well over 100 people in attendance, it was an exciting evening!

It was especially gratifying to meet members of the buyer and provider community in person, and to listen as they discussed the challenges and opportunities in their businesses, the trends they’ve observed, and the war stories they swapped. We even got to meet The VAR Guy, although we never learned his true identity. All in all, it was a rousing success, and an excellent way to head into 2008. It definitely won’t be the last such event we put together.

And, even though it’s still a few days away, all of us at OnForce wish you and yours a safe and happy holiday season.

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