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Richard Wayne Lewis is a London-based entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is a founding partner of Tristan Capital Partners, a London-based real estate private equity firm and its predecessor, Curzon Global Partners (1998–2008). He is also the founder and chairman of UK/US registered charity the Black Heart Foundation. He ranked first in the Powerlist 2019, an annual list of the UK's most influential people with African or Afro-Caribbean heritage.

Career
Lewis was a partner and senior managing director of AEW Capital Management, a Boston-based investment management business. He and his partners founded Curzon Global Partners, a London-based pan-European real estate private equity investment company. Lewis was a founding partner of Tristan Capital Partners in 2009, a London-based private equity real estate firm.

In 2019, he delivered a TEDx talk about “Using your superpowers to make change”

Charity and Public Service
Lewis is the founder and Chairman of UK/US registered charity the Black Heart Foundation. Founded in 2009, it is dedicated to supporting initiatives that improve educational benefits for young people and providing opportunity to those who are otherwise denied it. Each year, the Foundation provides several educational scholarships, through its Black Heart Scholars Programme, to young people in need in the UK and abroad. At present, the Foundation has over 80 Black Heart Scholars at 45 different universities, 6 schools and programmes throughout the UK and US. In addition, Lewis serves on a number of educational and charity boards.

He is Chairman of the Institute of Imagination (London Children's Museum). He is also a Trustee of the Royal National Children's Springboard Foundation, and holds further positions in the UK as Governor, King Solomon Academy, and Patron, Eastside Young Leaders Academy.

In terms of the US, he is a Trustee of Dartmouth College and serves on the Board of Visitors for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Previously in the UK he was a Trustee of Teach First and of International Inspiration (charity for London Olympic Games). He was also a Board Director of London First and the London Regional Council, The Prince’s Trust.

In the US, he served as Board of Visitors, Rockefeller Center for International and Public Policy, Dartmouth College; Board Director, Boys & Girls Club of Boston; Board Director, I Have a Dream, Boston; Board Director, International House of Blues Foundation; Trustee, Hyams Foundation Inc.; Overseer, The Judge Baker Children’s Center, Boston and Non-Executive Director, Innovision LLC

In addition, Lewis was previously a Board Director, Grassroot Soccer (South Africa) and a Board Director, Smurfit School of Business, University College Dublin.

Recognition

 * He was awarded Europe Industry Figure of the Year in the European category of the 10th PERE Global Awards.
 * Lewis was awarded a place in the Boston Jaycees Ten Outstanding Young Leaders Award (1998).
 * He was voted as the most influential black person in Britain in the 2019 JP Morgan/EY Powerlist. He was ranked second in the Powerlist 2018 and 2017.