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Richard William (Bill) Lewis

Board Director, Influencer, Digital Advocate, Entrepreneur & Advisor

Bill Lewis works with Chairs, Boards, CEOs, Senior Executives and Entrepreneurs, and delivers practical, relevant, timely, and quality guidance, leadership, and advice. He provides diplomacy, gravitas, and experience at Board level, and to emerging businesses. All based on deep international business experience at the most senior level. He is a consummate leader and Boardroom player. He has helped build Fortune 200 companies and entrepreneurial businesses. He passionately champions strategic progress via new technology for over two decades. His career track record has been at the heart of change, transformation and entrepreneurship. He writes, speak and contribute to technology and entrepreneurial issues globally.

Bill Lewis is a Honorary Teaching Fellow at the Lancaster University Management School (UK), specialising in Entrepreneurship and teaching postgraduate and final year students.

Bill Lewis’s business vehicle is Linacre Partners – a loosely held consortium of like minded senior and extremely well connected and experienced business directors and executives who operate globally and internationally.

Born in Lancashire UK, he attended local school, before moving onto secondary education at Thomas Linacre School, Wigan, and then after a break of five years he moved to graduate and postgraduate education at what is now University of Central Lancashire and Lancaster University Management School where he gained distinction at both institutions..

He was selected and sponsored to attend Harvard Business School’s Premier Advanced Management Program in 1986 (AMP98).

Bill Lewis has held Board and senior positions in the consulting, airline, aircraft maintenance, yacht and ship maintenance, outsourcing and technology industries. He has an extensive level of global experience and has commanded organisations spanning four continents. in 2012 he co-founded Temasys Communications Pte Limited, a company specialising in web communications based in Singapore and Palo Alto, CA.

In 1987 he was responsible for founding the charity “Drive For Youth” (DFY). DFY helped seriously disadvantaged young people in the 18 to 25 year old age group develop the skills and mind-set to become successful adults and gain a productive place in society. Bill Lewis was the CEO of DFY from 1987 to 1991, during which time the program helped over 500 young people, 80 percent of whom went on to successful careers and / or further education. DFY continued until 1999, when it was wound down.

Bill Lewis has two grown children and five grandchildren. He is globally mobile and works / resides in Europe and Guernsey and Asia. His interests are cycling and yachting.