GEOFF LEWIS
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer
RE/MAX International, Inc.
Geoff Lewis was promoted to Chief Legal Officer in August 2005, less than a year after joining the RE/MAX network in October 2004 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. His affiliation with RE/MAX marked a return to Colorado from his previous position as Vice President, Corporate Development and General Counsel for Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc., in Portland, Oregon, a title he had held since 1995. Prior to that, he was Vice President and General Counsel for American Health Properties in Greenwood Village, Colorado from 1991 to 1995.
Lewis served as chief legal counsel for Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, a $1.8 billion company engaged in worldwide manufacture, marketing and sales of industrial trucks. He also managed the firms’ law and risk department.
While at American Health Properties, he was chief legal officer for the New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate company and dealt extensively with securities regulations, public and private securities offerings, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and a variety of other related disciplines.
He also practiced in corporate securities, mergers and acquisitions while with the international law firm of Jones Day in Los Angeles, California from 1985-1991.
Lewis received his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from Brigham Young University in 1980, a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) in 1983 at the University of Virginia and a Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the University of Colorado in 1994. He also speaks, reads and writes fluently in French.
He and his wife Deborah have three sons.
Lewis enjoys skiing, waterskiing, hiking and dirt bike riding.
