About 375 entrepreneurs, executives and others were on hand last week for the Business Journal’s fourth annual fast-growing private companies award ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Irvine. The event honored the top 10 companies on the Business Journal’s 2010 fast-growing private companies list, which appears in this week’s paper along with profiles of the winners. The event recognized all of the list’s 69 companies, which managed to grow through the thick of the recession. The event included a cocktail reception and Mardi Gras party theme, with New Orleans decor and food and a jazz band.

