Ric Lewis
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Last Updated: 22 Sep 2026
Executive Chairman & Co-Chief Investment Officer
London, GB
Profile Verified by The Marque
Last Updated: 22 Sep 2026
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In Their Own Right
Biography
Ric Lewis is the Executive Chairman and Co-CIO of Tristan Capital Partners, a property investment company based in London, with over €11 billion in assets under management. The firm specialises in investment strategies for private wealth, institutional and endowment investors, focusing on all types of property across Europe and the UK. Ric founded the company and continued the partnership and track record he had formed with his partners at Curzon Global Partners (AEW Europe).
With more than 115 workers in eight locations around Europe, Tristan Capital Partners is majority-owned and managed by its principals. The company has developed a multi-fund, multi-year track record which has established them as one of Europe’s top property investment management firms.
Tristan has twice been voted by industry peers as the European Real Estate Private Equity Firm of the Year and Ric is the only two-time recipient of Real Estate Private Equity Professional of the Year. In 2017, the firm also won The Queen’s Award for Enterprise and International Trade.
Ric volunteers much of his time to organisations dedicated to improving education for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Ric founded The Black Heart Foundation which supports initiatives that improve educational outcomes for young people and provides opportunities to those otherwise denied them. The Foundation offers various educational scholarships to youths in need in the UK and elsewhere. Ric is also an Advisory Board member of the 10,000 Black Interns programme and a Founding Trustee of the Black Equity Organisation.
Ric serves on many educational and community Boards, including the Belfer Center at Harvard University; Dartmouth College (USA); Eastside Young Leaders Academy; King Solomon Academy; the Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation; and the Institute of Imagination (London Children’s Museum). In October 2021, he was appointed to the governing Council of Imperial College London.
The Record
Background
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2009 — Present
Executive Chairman & Co-Chief Investment Officer
Tristan Capital Partners
Tristan Capital Partners is a privately held real estate investment firm based in London and widely recognised as one of the best in Europe. Ric is a founding Partner of the firm and also serves as Chair of the Investment Committee.
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1999 — 2009
Chief Investment Officer and Board Director
AEW Europe
AEW Europe is one of the world’s top real estate asset managers, employing over 600 people in offices in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Boston. Separate accounts, comingled funds and securities mandates are just some of the property investment solutions offered by the company.
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1999 — 2009
CEO & Founder
Curzon Global Partners
Part of property investor AEW Europe, Curzon Global Partners was founded in London in 1999.
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1987 — 2009
Partner and Senior Managing Director
AEW Capital Management
AEW Global provides property investment management services to investors around the world. With more than 600 employees operating from 15 locations in Europe, North America, and Asia, it provides customers with the local property resources they need to meet their investment goals.
In The News
Newsfeed
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12 August 2026 · PEI
Tristan Capital's Ric Lewis: 'The market's a closed circle'
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30 June 2025 · Civil Service World (CSW)
Latest civil service & public affairs moves
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24 March 2025 · UK Parliament
MPs approve preferred candidate for Crown Estate Chair
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2 January 2025 · Prime Resi
Crown Estate chooses new chair
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4 April 2024 · The Earthshot Prize
Ric Lewis joins The Earthshot Prize Board of Trustees
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15 August 2023 · Golf Monthly
Europe's Largest Black Golfing Events Set To Return For Third Year
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24 May 2022 · The Independent
UK’s first national Black civil rights organisation launched by cross-section of influential figur
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12 September 2021 · Channel 4 News
The Making of Britain’s Black Renaissance
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9 September 2021
Black Heart Foundation gives support to landmark Black British Golf Open
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Formative Years
Education
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Harvard Business School
PMD
1995
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Dartmouth College
BA Economics
Areas Of Focus