Shore: 'Put local business ahead of relocating companies'

In Friday's Nashville Business Journal profile of ZOOM-Americas' high-energy President Brian Shore (at left), formerly an exec here with Cisco, Shore tells NBJ, in part, "...Nashville needs to continue to foster and nourish the next generation of leaders and offer support for business incubation, connect funding sources with entrentrepreneurs and create a community of supporting the local businesses before looking at out-of-state companies." Here's our earlier story on Shore joining ZOOM.

Brentwood's ZOOM in partnership

Brentwood-based ZOOM International today announced a sales and marketing alliance with Atlanta-based GMT Corp., through which the companies will sell a unified WorkFORCE product offering for call centers. VNC's earlier story on Brian Shore (left) of ZOOM.

Tech exec grabs Czech

We reported Tuesday on former Cisco regional manager Brian Shore's appointment to the presidency for North American operations of ZOOM International, a telephony call recording and analytics provider, which will headquarter in Brentwood. Our story is here, including reference to Brian's skydiving adventure with his new boss, a 29-year-old Czech entrepreneur. Want more? That's Brian at left, at a hangar in Prague. Brian's ride is documented on YouTube, right here. ZOOM will be a story to watch. ZOOM Founder-CEO Simon Vostry has reportedly been something of an entrepreneur since age 11 or so, and, at 29, he's now riding a global wave of technologic innovation.