Jeremy Woan has joined CyraCom from the Bampton Group. Bampton is a venture capital investment and advisory firm with offices in San Francisco and the UK that, for the past ten years, has successfully invested in and worked with a wide range of transatlantic and US technology companies. All companies in which Bampton has invested have subsequently gone on to IPO or trade sale. Through his work, Mr. Woan has served as a board member and chairman of various private and public companies in fields including: enterprise software, cellular telephony, healthcare technology and services, and media. Previously, Mr. Woan 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 8 years for several leading international investment banking firms where he specialized in the international growth and financing of small and medium technology companies and worked on a wide range of UK and international IPO's. Mr. Woan is a frequent panelist and speaker at US and European conferences on early stage technology investing and especially on the issues of raising finance and building a management team domestically and internationally. He holds graduate degrees from Cambridge University in law and public international law and was a 2007 Entrepreneur in Residence at the McGuire School of Entrepreneurship within the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management. Outside his work commitments, Mr. Woan is an international sailor and former member of the British sailing team and has coached many high school and college athletes in Northern California to medals in the Junior Olympics program. He chairs the Northern California branch of the Cambridge Alumni and is a board member of the San Francisco Branch of the English-Speaking Union, the Silicon Valley chapter of the British American Business Council and the Development Board of Downing College, Cambridge. |