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Ric Lewis is Chief Executive and Chairman of Tristan Capital Partners, a London based boutique investment manager specialising in real estate investment strategies. Tristan Capital Partners manages two pan-European investment funds with approximately €2 Billion of assets under management.
Prior to forming Tristan, Ric founded and served for several years as Chief Executive for Curzon Global Partners, the London based real estate investment company and as Chief Investment Officer and Board of Directors of AEW Europe, its parent company, a pan-European real estate investment management business, with 10 offices, 270 staff and €18 Billion in assets under management.
Outside of work, Ric volunteers the majority of his time to organisations dedicated to improving the access to and the quality of education, especially for children from less advantaged areas and environments. Ric serves on the Board of Directors of London First; the Board of Visitors for the Belfer Centre for International Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; the Board of Trustees of Teach First; the Board of Governors of King Solomon Academy; the Board of Directors of the Eastside Young Leaders Academy and the Board of Directors of Innovision, plc.
At Dartmouth College (USA), Ric received his A.B., Economics. Ric is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School (PMD) and he has dual American and British nationality.