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Biography

Before moving to Utah in September 2006 to help establish the World Trade Center Utah, Lew Cramer served as a managing director of Summit Ventures International, which is a Washington, D.C.-based strategic business consulting firm, focusing on international business development, major project financing and advocacy issues for both domestic and global companies.

Previously, Mr. Cramer served as the director general of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, leading the U.S. Government’s commercial staff of 1,400 employees at more than 120 embassies overseas and in 65 offices throughout the United States. In the Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush administrations, he served as assistant secretary of commerce for international trade, deputy assistant secretary of commerce for science and electronics and White House Fellow with the U.S. Trade Representative.

He has worked extensively in the global telecommunications and broadband sectors, including serving as vice president for MediaOne International and US WEST, where he was responsible for their international government and multilateral financial institution relations and public policy for numerous wireless and broadband investments in more than 30 countries. From an initial capital investment of approximately $2 billion, these international investments were valued at more than $15 billion when merged into AT&T in 2000.

Mr. Cramer is chair of the Global Affairs Council of the American Management Association, member of the U.S. Department of State’s International Communications and Information Policy Advisory Board, former international advisor to the chair of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, former board member of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute; and has taught international business at Georgetown University and the University of Southern California. He has served on several non-profit boards and has lectured extensively on international business and government topics around the world.

Previously, he practiced corporate law in the San Francisco Bay area and in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Cramer holds bachelor's and law degrees from Brigham Young University. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Holladay, Utah, and are the parents of six children.