Church Lewis
Church is a career growth company investment banker interested in the intersection of capital and social and economic policy. He sees entrepreneurship and technology innovation as forces for positive social change and works with company founders on corporate development and raising capital across multiple sectors including enterprise software, climate technology, quantum, AI, healthcare, and energy.
He is a member of the advisory boards of Mitico, Boundless Impact, Terra Global Capital, and Savantx.
He is also a strategic advisor to XPRIZE on expanding funding strategies to support the foundation’s work, following service in the Climate+Energy working group to formulate new prize challenges. His previous experience includes Managing Director at Needham & Company, where he started the internet and digital media investment banking practice and headed that group for nine years, Founder and President of Quartz Euromarkets, LLC, formed to represent clients in cross-border transactions, Head of Privatization for UNDP as a diplomat in Central Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Principal at Alex. Brown.
He is a Managing Director with San Francisco based Atlas Technology Group and lives in Los Angeles. Church received his BA from Stanford University, his JD from Columbia Law School, and his MBA from Harvard Business School.