While we have offices in 21 cities around the world, I think that passion is part of every one of our offices, and the result has been infectious. People who join the company are immediately tied into it, and that company-wide passion has helped us hire some extraordinary people. In fact, the average age of our employee is 34 years old. We ve been able to bring together a particularly senior group of people, and that s been one of the reasons we ve been so successful at penetrating these large businesses. There are a couple of things that really stand out in the numbers.
First thing is, top-line growth.
If you re an investor, you want to see sustainable increases in earnings and that s exactly what we ve done. We ve been profitable since we went public, despite incredibly fast growth. Investors should focus on the growth of the client engagements, the trend in the top line, and the fact that we ve been able to increase our profits throughout all this change. In the services segment, investors look very closely at gross margins, which is essentially the cost of your people. You typically see more mature consultancies coming in at the 40s in gross margins, so we feel that we have a real advantage there.