Hunter Lewis, Founder
Committed to do well by doing good.
Hunter Lewis is the founder and CEO of Hunter Lewis, LLC, a family office that is the lead investor in Sudoc, LLC. Mr. Lewis serves as advisor to the Sudoc board.
Hunter Lewis, LLC is a registered investment advisor and family office based in Charlottesville, VA. Mr. Lewis began his career working at the Boston Company, then one of the largest investment managers, first as assistant to the president and then vice-president. In 1975 Mr. Lewis co-founded and served as Co-Chief Executive and then Chief Executive of Cambridge Associates LLC, an investment and financial advisor to research universities and colleges representing over three-fourths of U.S. higher education endowment assets, foundations, cultural organizations, international organizations, and other non-profit institutions as well as families. Assets under advisement at year end 2018 were $2.4 trillion.
Mr. Lewis was a co-inventor of what became known as the American University style of institutional investing, which gave American university endowment funds some of the highest investment returns in the world among institutional investors, and which became widely emulated.
Mr. Lewis has served as Treasurer and President of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, a graduate research institute affiliated with 150 American colleges and universities; Chairman of the National Environmental Trust, now part of PEW Charitable Trusts; Chairman of Dumbarton Oaks (affiliate of Harvard University); founder and Chairman of the Trearne Foundation, which provides educational assistance to foster children; Chairman of the Worldwatch Institute; Chairman of Shelburne Farms; Treasurer of the World Wildlife Fund; Trustee of World Wildlife Fund International (World Wide Fund for Nature); Trustee of the Morgan Library; Trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Director of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello); Trustee of the Groton School; director and board President of The Alliance for Natural Health USA, and member of the World Bank Pension Finance Committee.
Mr. Lewis has contributed to many newspapers, periodicals, and web sites including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Times of London, the Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes.com, and has written thirteen books on economics and moral philosophy.
Mr. Lewis was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1947 and graduated from the Groton School and Harvard University (AB 1969).