Jeremy Woan

Jeremy Woan has been Chairman and CEO of CyraCom International, Inc. since January 2008 and has transformed it into one of the fastest growing private companies in the US, as demonstrated by its Inc. 5000 listings from 2009-2016. Jeremy has grown the company’s revenues by more than six times and turned CyraCom into a leading provider of phone and video interpretation. Under his leadership, the company has been recognized by Inc. Magazine’s Hire Power Awards as Arizona’s fastest-growing job creator in 2013 and second fastest in 2012 for creating over 900 jobs in the state. In 2013, CyraCom was ranked 32 in Inc. Magazine’s Hire Power list of the top 100 job creating private companies in the country and 46 in 2012.

Previously, Jeremy worked for the Bampton Group, a venture capital investment and advisory firm that, for over ten years, successfully invested in and worked with a wide range of transatlantic and US technology and service companies which have all gone on to IPO or trade sale.

Jeremy also successfully built two technology companies through to IPO, one in high performance notebook computing, and the other in electronic patient record systems. Prior to this, he worked for several leading international investment banking firms where he specialized in the international growth and financing of technology companies and worked on a wide range of UK and international IPOs. Through his work, Jeremy has served as board member and chairman of various private and public companies in enterprise solutions, cellular telephony, healthcare technology and services, and media.

Jeremy was the recipient of the 2010 Thomas R. Brown Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award and was honored as an Entrepreneurial Fellow in 2012 by the University of Arizona’s McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship.

In June 2012, Jeremy received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 Award in the Services category in the Mountain Desert Region. The award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. In 2015, Jeremy received a Gold American Business Award for Executive of the Year in the Business Services Category.

He has frequently been a panelist and speaker at US and European conferences on technology investment; his topics of expertise include raising finance and building management teams both domestically and internationally. Jeremy holds graduate degrees from Cambridge University in law and public international law. In 2007, he was Entrepreneur in Residence at the McGuire School of Entrepreneurship within the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management. He is past Chair of the Cambridge Alumni of Northern California branch of the Cambridge Alumni.