Josh Lewis

Josh is a 35-year VC and PE veteran who’s applied the tools of that profession to a portfolio of for-profit and nonprofit activities. He was a partner of two world-class firms then for over 20 years ran his own, generating top decile returns. His portfolio ranged from start-ups through growth stage and large/public companies. He has served on a range of public, private, and nonprofit boards in the U.S. and abroad. He also serves as a faculty advisor for Tuck’s CPEVC.

Josh teaches “Moral Reasoning:  From Machiavelli to The Bomb to AI Deployment,” which he describes as a humanities course designed for a business school. He adds, “The course provides tools for critical thinking, for finding the right questions, and for challenging assumptions and conventional wisdom. It is not a course in what to know—more an exercise in ways to think. While success in business requires both hard skills and soft skills, I found that this third type of skills, which the study of humanities can provide so effectively, was often more valuable.”