Lew Cramer is CEO of Coldwell Banker Commercial Advisors (CBC Advisors), which is
the largest commercial real estate company headquartered in the Intermountain West
and the top performing Coldwell Banker Commercial operation globally. Governor Gary
Herbert also recently appointed Lew as a Utah Transportation Commissioner. Previously,
Lew served as founding CEO of World Trade Center Utah. Lew's vision and efforts helped
position Utah as the only state in the nation with positive export growth every year
for the past decade, including over $19 billion of merchandise exports in 2012. Lew
served in the Reagan and first Bush administrations as the subcabinet officer responsible
for U.S. international trade promotion, including leading 1400 commercial officers
at 100 embassies and consulates worldwide as Director General of the U.S. Commercial
Service. He later spent many years helping develop the first cellular and cable telephone
projects in Asia, Europe and the former USSR. For several years Mr. Cramer taught
at the business schools of the University of Southern California and Georgetown University.
He practiced corporate law in both Silicon Valley and Los Angeles after graduating
from the charter class of BYU law school.
