Ernst & Young announces Jeremy Woan, Chairman & CEO, CyraCom International, is an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 Award winner in The Mountain Desert region
Tucson, Arizona– 7/1/2012 7:00:00 AM
Ernst & Young LLP today announced that Jeremy Woan, Chairman & CEO, CyraCom International, an industry leading provider of interpretation and translation services for healthcare, business and government, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 Award in the Services category in Mountain Desert Region. The award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Jeremy was selected by an independent panel of judges, and the award was presented at a special gala on June 28, 2012 at the Seawell Ballroom in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
“I am honored by this recognition and thank Ernst and Young and the program judges for it. I also thank everybody at CyraCom International whose hard work and efforts in recent years has allowed us to achieve such strong growth and job creation, and look forward to working with them to continue that,” said Jeremy Woan, Chairman and CEO of CyraCom.
Now in its 26th year, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Program has honored the inspirational leadership of such entrepreneurs as Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Michael Dell of Dell Inc., Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines, Fred Smith of FedEx, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Richard Schulze of Best Buy, Andrew Mason of Groupon, Mindy Grossman of HSN, Inc., Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, and many more.
As a Mountain Desert award winner, Jeremy is now eligible for consideration for the National Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 Award. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the National Entrepreneur Of The Year Overall Award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 17, 2012. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum®, the nation’s most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.
Sponsors
Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards are nationally sponsored in the United States by SAP America and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
In the Mountain Desert region, local sponsors include Faegre Baker Daniels, CliftonLarsonAllen, ADP, Scherzer International, The Denver Business Journal and JohnstonWells Public Relations.
About CyraCom International, Inc.
CyraCom International, Inc. provides innovative language solutions including Over-the-Phone Interpretation (OPI), Translation and Localization, Video Remote Interpretation, On-Site Interpretation, and Testing and Training. CyraCom International is the 2nd largest provider of OPI in the world, according to industry reports, and was named to Inc. 5000’s list of fastest growing private companies in 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011. In business since 1995, and based in Tucson, Arizona, the company provides language services to over 2,500 clients in healthcare, business and government.
About Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The unique award makes a difference through the way it encourages entrepreneurial activity among those with potential, and recognizes the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. As the first and only truly global award of its kind, Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognizing them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 140 cities in more than 50 countries.
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Contact: Ivan Venzin
Company: CyraCom International, Inc.
Tel: (800) 713-4950
Email: marketing(at)cyracom(dot)com
