About Max Lewinsohn — Chairman, Investor & Entrepreneur

Origins

When plans
change overnight

When Max Lewinsohn's father died while Max was still a young man, the future changed overnight. A sports scholarship at UCLA was set aside, and in its place came the disciplined path of chartered accountancy. It was not the life Max had planned, but it proved to be the foundation for everything that followed.

That early responsibility shaped a different kind of ambition. Not the flashy kind. The kind that stays for decades. By his late twenties, Max was chairman of his first public company. He didn't announce it. He simply got to work.

What followed was an unusual career — unusually long, and unusually wide-ranging. Six public companies across Europe, Asia, and the United States. Board positions in financial services, real estate, healthcare, energy, shipping, and entertainment. Successes and some failures. Real responsibility, real learning. A career measured not in headlines, but in sustained effort and the strange privilege of influence.

The Arc

45 years at
board level

A career that spans four and a half decades doesn't fit neatly into a single category. Financial services came first — the grounding in numbers and risk. Then came real estate, where Max learned how to build and hold. Healthcare followed, then energy, then shipping. And running through it all, entertainment and the people who create.

The same person who helped float Chelsea Football Club on the Stock Exchange through his stake in Seymour Pierce went on to chair Film Finances, the world's leading film completion guarantor since 1950. The same person who speaks confidently about semiconductor thermoelectrics and industrial waste heat has sat in the boardrooms of shipping companies and private equity houses.

There is no formula to explain this range. It comes down to pattern recognition, the willingness to learn quickly, and the kind of patience that only comes from believing that the work itself matters more than any single transaction.

45+

Years at board level

6

Public companies

4

Continents served

The Second Act

Energy, medicine,
and the future

Every career has a pivot. Max's came not because the previous chapter was finished — it wasn't — but because something outside himself demanded his attention. His daughter Lisa spent years in the Amazon working on environmental conservation. Watching her care about the land, about clean air and clean water, changed how he looked at the investments in front of him.

The pivot was toward purpose. Not purpose as marketing speak, but as a fundamental reorientation of capital and time. Today, Max chairs MicroPower Global, developing thermoelectric semiconductor technology that converts industrial waste heat into emissions-free electricity. He chairs Wellbeing International Foundation, pioneering Cell-Free Therapy to support regenerative medicine and elite performance.

These are not charity positions. They are serious businesses at the frontier of their domains. Real technology, real science, real commercialization. The kind of work that takes decades to bear fruit — which is precisely why it matters.

With Denise Trauth, President Texas State University

Beyond Work

Family, sport,
and the rest

Max is a father of three — Lisa, Dominic, and Tristan. He splits his time between Sussex, London, and the United States. His children have shaped how he thinks about legacy and impact, and they've given him the kind of ordinary joy that no boardroom can match.

He remains a lifelong sportsman. Chelsea supporter since childhood — he was there for the Champions League victories, the Premier League titles, the FA Cups. Still plays tennis, though the competitive ambitions have softened. Still skis and snowboards with enthusiasm in Park City, Sun Valley, and wherever the powder calls him.

Travel matters. He has spent time across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America — not as a tourist, but staying long enough to understand, building relationships that last decades. He reads voraciously. He values conversation. He believes that ideas matter, that culture matters, and that the people you choose to spend time with are the most important investment you can make.

Max Lewinsohn is active and engaged. He is not looking back at what he has done. He is looking forward — at what comes next, at the investments that haven't been made yet, at the ideas that are still being tested. He welcomes conversation with people who share that orientation: the willingness to learn, the patience to wait for results, and the belief that good capital in good hands can create something that lasts.

The Full Story

When plans
change overnight

45 years at
board level

45+

6

4

Energy, medicine,
and the future

Family, sport,
and the rest

Let's start a
conversation

The Full Story

When planschange overnight

45 years atboard level

45+

6

4

Energy, medicine,and the future

Family, sport,and the rest

Let's start aconversation

When plans
change overnight

45 years at
board level

Energy, medicine,
and the future

Family, sport,
and the rest

Let's start a
conversation