ShoreTel Welcomes Sunnyvale Mayor Melinda Hamilton

ShoreTel® (NASDAQ: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today welcomes Sunnyvale Mayor Melinda Hamilton, as she visits ShoreTel headquarters in recognition of the company’s success.

The City of Sunnyvale’s prosperity is tied to a healthy economy driven by growing businesses. Mayor Hamilton has expressed commitment to supporting technology growth and innovation in the community, enabling Sunnyvale-based companies to thrive despite a challenging global market.

"Our city, our region and our country needs jobs right now, and to create good jobs, you need smart companies doing creative, innovative things. We are thrilled that ShoreTel is using the human capital talent in Silicon Valley to do those creative, innovative things, and the city of Sunnyvale is looking forward to continue to support ShoreTel in their success,” said Mayor Hamilton.

"ShoreTel has grown our talent base in Sunnyvale by over 37 percent in the last three years while experiencing consistent growth in revenue, operating profit and customer base. Our work environment and team-based atmosphere go a long way toward bringing out the best in our employees,” said Peter Blackmore, ShoreTel President and CEO. "We expect our momentum to continue as we deliver exciting new technologies to our customers that offer the simplicity and quality that define the ShoreTel brand. As we celebrate our 15^th anniversary, ShoreTel is proud to mark 12 years as a part of the prospering Sunnyvale community.”

Mayor Hamilton is joining ShoreTel today to celebrate the achievement of being named Nemertes Research annual PilotHouse Awards’ Top IP Telephony Provider for eight years running. ShoreTel is enabling organizations of all sizes to get the most out of a first-rate integrated communications solution without the high cost or complexity of typical IP-enabled systems.

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About ShoreTel

ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR) is the provider of brilliantly simple Unified Communication (UC) solutions based on its award-winning IP business phone system. We offer organizations of all sizes integrated voice, video, data, and mobile communications on an open, distributed IP architecture that helps significantly reduce the complexity and costs typically associated with other solutions. The feature-rich ShoreTel UC system offers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and the highest customer satisfaction in the industry, in part because it is easy to deploy, manage, scale and use. Increasingly, companies around the world are finding a competitive edge by replacing business-as-usual with new thinking, and choosing ShoreTel to handle their integrated business communication. ShoreTel is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has regional offices in Austin, Texas; United Kingdom; Sydney, Australia; and Singapore. For more information, visit www.shoretel.com.