Lew attended the University of Pennsylvania, LaSalle University as an undergrad, earned a MBA at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a Doctorate in Business Administration from USC. Lew also holds his Master's Certification of Public Company Board of Directors from the American College of Public Company Directors. Trivial fact, Lew was a collegiate athlete playing basketball and, in the summer of 1976, he set the world record for playing Backgammon underwater with some of his teammates to raise money for a burn center in Philadelphia. Currently, in addition to his coaching CEOs and executives, Lew is a Clinical Professor and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Loyola Marymount University in the Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship Management where he won "Professor of the Year".