Ric Lewis

Ric Lewis is Chief Executive and Chairman of Tristan Capital Partners. Ric brings a 25+ year track record of global/international real estate investment management to Tristan.

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 11 offices, 270 staff and €18 Billion in assets under management.

Prior to founding Curzon and helping to assemble AEW Europe, Ric was a Partner and Senior Managing Director of AEW Capital Management, a US based investment management business with 200 staff and $25 Billion 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 Trustees of The International Inspiration Foundation; The Board of Directors of Grassroot Soccer; the Board of Governors of King Solomon Academy; the Board of Trustees of the London Children's Museum; the Board of Directors of the Eastside Young Leaders Academy and the Board of Directors of Innovision, llc. 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.

Ric has established the Black Heart Foundation, a UK and US registered charitable organisation dedicated to providing and simply improving educational opportunities and experiences for children in under-resourced environments.