Exceed is a small, deliberately-scaled shop of engineers and technicians who've spent their careers in plants, on skids, and in control rooms across North America. This page explains who's behind it — and why the track record matters more than the logo. Before Exceed, founder Ian Taylor built a controls and automation company called Connect Control Systems — and ran it onto one of the most credible private-company rankings in Canada. Under Ian's leadership, Connect Control Systems earned the 84th spot nationally and 6th in the Edmonton region on the Canadian Business / Globe and Mail 2015 Profit 500 — the magazine's annual ranking of Canada's fastest-growing private companies, based on five-year revenue growth. Read the St. Albert Gazette coverage → That ranking is a verifiable third-party credential. It's what an operator's résumé looks like when the work is real. Source: Canadian Business / Globe and Mail · Profit 500 · annual ranking of Canada's fastest-growing private companies by 5-year revenue growth.