Jay B. Myers is founder and CEO of Interactive Solutions Inc. (ISI), a Memphis-based firm that specializes in video conferencing, distance learning, telemedicine, and audio-visual sales and support.
Jay started ISI in 1996 and has built it into a $25-million company with 55 employees & offices in Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, as well as Oxford, MS, & Little Rock, AR.
ISI has received numerous corporate awards and recognition in the past several years. The company was named to INC. magazine’s list of the fastest growing private companies in the United States seven times in the past 11 years. ISI also was recently featured in the Small Business section of the Wall Street Journal. In addition, ISI was named the Memphis Business Journal Small Business of the Year in 2001 and in 2003 was the first recipient of the Kemmons Wilson (founder of Holiday Inn) Emerging Business Award.
In 2007, Jay published his first book, Keep Swinging: An Entrepreneur’s Story of Overcoming Adversity and Achieving Small Business Success and subsequently received the 2010 Ethan Award for success as an entrepreneurial author.
A natural storyteller, Jay is a sought-after speaker at CEO conferences and entrepreneurial development programs where he shares inspiring stories and practical tips based on growing ISI from $11- to $25-million during the Great Recession. Jay’s message as detailed in his second book, Hitting the Curveballs: How Crisis Can Strengthen and Grow Your Business, reveals creative, practical strategies to achieve business success in difficult times.
In 2018, ISI was sold to the world’s largest AV Integration firm, AVI-SPL.
Jay was inducted into the Christian Brothers High School Hall of Fame in 2011 and is active in numerous Memphis area community and civic organizations. Myers currently serves on the advisory board of the Chickasaw Council (Boy Scouts of America) Bancorp South and the National Foundation for Transplants. He is also past chairman and a current board member/executive committee member of the Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South.
Interactive Solutions (ISI) sells and supports video conferencing, distance learning, telemedicine and audio- visual systems on a world-wide basis. ISI is proudly headquartered in Memphis with remote offices in Nashville, Knoxville, Oxford, Miss. and Little Rock, Ark. Notable clients include FedEx, AutoZone, Nike, International Paper, UTHSC, First Tennessee Bank, Asurion and Kroger
It is an honor and privilege to live in a country that allows one the opportunity to build a business out of dirt. Because in the end, being an entrepreneur is more than ever the way you can choose your path and find the deep satisfaction of walking it. Even with all the risk, you can still earn your days without being beholden. You can create and innovate. You can make something affect the world, leave something behind where once nothing stood. You can turn work into meaning for yourself and for others. You can be proud. You can leave your mark. Come good or ill, you can assume responsibility for yourself and be whole, and be who you were meant to be.
