Jermyn Davis, a once aspiring professional double bassist, began his college career at Juilliard. However, he decided to pursue a liberal arts education and transferred to Wake Forest, where he double majored in political science and Chinese. At Wake Forest, he served as student body president and the student member of the Board of Trustees. He was also a member of the Black Student Alliance and Honor and Ethics Council, worked as a President’s Aide and wrote for the Old Gold and Black.
Jermyn became interested in a career in higher education when Wake Forest’s 13th President Nathan Hatch offered him a position in the president’s office following Jermyn’s graduation. He quickly found out that he agreed with Forbes magazine, which stated that being a university president is one of the hardest jobs in America.
Jermyn went on to receive his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked as chief of staff at Colorado College and as a senior consultant at Deloitte Consulting. Jermyn joined the Wake Forest Board of Trustees in 2016 and also served on the Colorado Springs Regional Alliance Higher Education Task Force and the Colorado Springs Conservatory Board of Directors. He now lives in Denver, Colorado, serving as the head of technical account management at Google, where he’s worked for the past five years helping strategically advise public sector and higher education organizations.