Jeff Cyr is Co-Founder of Raven Capital, Founder and Managing Partner of Raven Indigenous Outcomes and President and CEO of the Raven Indigenous Impact Foundation.

Métis from the White Horse Plains area of Southern Manitoba, the traditional Buffalo Hunt staging grounds in the Red River Valley, he has 25 years of experience providing strategic leadership for Indigenous for-profit companies and not-for-profit companies and governments at senior levels.

Jeff pioneered the community-driven outcomes contract (a unique pay-for-success social finance model) and the Indigenous Solutions Lab process, which earned him an Ashoka Fellowship in 2019.  That model has now expanded to a first of its kind Indigenous Outcomes Fund.

Recently, he was Vice-President of the Indigenous Innovation Initiative at Grand Challenges Canada, a sessional lecturer at Carleton University in Public Policy and a guest lecturer at Oxford University in Social Finance. Previously, Jeff was the CEO of the National Association of Indigenous Friendship Centres (NAFC) and Chair of the Institute Advisory Board for Indigenous Peoples’ Health at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Jeff lives and works on unceded Algonquin lands in what is now known as Mont-Tremblant, QC.

He holds a BA in Asian Languages and Politics and an MA in Political Studies/International Relations from the University of Manitoba.