Tad Lewis is a business attorney and executive with over twenty-five years experience in  private ven-ture and asset based finance, strategic joint ventures, new product launches, business management, real estate, and licensing and distribution arrangements. Mr. Lewis heads up Seattle-based GuidePoint Law, which is focused on technology ventures and intellectual property, sustainable development and green technology, and real estate development law. 

Prior to starting GuidePoint Law in 2008, Mr. Lewis was a partner at Mundt MacGregor, a thirty year old law firm with connections in the banking, manufacturing and fishing sectors in the Pacific Northwest and Scandinavia. From 1995 to 2003, Mr. Lewis held various positions at start-up AccessLine Communications (now part of Intermedia Holdings), including Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and Vice President of Business Development where he helped raise over $90 million in venture capital and spearheaded the company’s initial push into Europe and Asia. Prior to AccessLine, Mr. Lewis held various legal positions at The Boeing Company where he worked on aircraft asset-based financing, pro-ject financing, international joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. He started his legal career with Perkins Coie, an international law firm headquartered in the Pacific Northwest and the region’s largest law firm. Mr. Lewis received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and his law degree from the University of Washington, where he served on the Washington Law Review.

Mr. Lewis was a founder and served on the boards of Global Building, the Sustainable Building Advisor Institute, and the International Sustainability Institute.