Managing Principal
The Cambria Group

Lew Davies founded The Cambria Group in 1996 and is its managing principal. He is an experienced private equity investor, having previously been a principal in the leveraged buyout groups of both Brentwood Associates and The Fremont Group.  The Cambria Group is a private equity firm which acquires and invests in small and mid-sized businesses across a wide range of industries and geographies; generally, Cambria’s businesses exclude technology, health care and retail industries, and have revenues of $5 million to $50 million. Mr. Davies brings experience in all stages of the private equity process – identifying and sourcing opportunities, arranging financing for transactions, building management teams at both the functional and executive levels, developing and executing organic growth strategies, assisting with portfolio company acquisition and divestiture programs, and exiting investments.

Previously, Mr. Davies worked for Bechtel Group, Inc., a leading international engineering-construction firm, in both operating and financial roles. His positions in project management, as well as field roles in procurement, construction and start-up capacities, provided broad line management experience. In addition, Mr. Davies had leadership roles in Bechtel Enterprises, the company’s project financing and investment arm, having opened its office in Saudi Arabia, with responsibility for all Middle Eastern activity, and having worked in numerous capacities in its merchant banking activities. He also served on the team established to secure the release of company personnel trapped during Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

Earlier, Mr. Davies worked in Chevron Corporation’s foreign operation staff and was the primary real estate analyst for the company’s U.S. and Canadian pension plans.

Mr. Davies holds a BS in industrial engineering, with distinction, from Stanford University. He also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

He currently serves on a number of corporate boards, as well as serving on the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution, where he is chairman of the Library & Archives Committee, and on the Parents’ Advisory Board at Stanford University.  He served as vice chairman of the board of trustees of Menlo School, was previously a national trustee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. and as a trustee of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. 

Mr. Davies and his wife, Pilar, live in Atherton, California.  They have three children.