Richard Lewis incarnates the body, soul and spirit of Black history. Adversity and challenge weren’t strangers in his past endeavors, and they endure today, but persistence lifted Lewis to his present position as the president and CEO of RTL Networks, a local enterprise with a global footprint. According to a Denver Business Journal profile on Lewis, he claims a couple of setbacks – being laid off two times in as many years at the turn of the century – as the impetus for his current success and inspiration for Lewis to launch RTL Networks in 2002.

The company markets itself as “Your Solutions Provider, providing among other services, IT cyber security and maintenance that have reaped, according to his bio, nearly $200 million. In two decades, the company’s setbacks, successes and accolades have prompted Lewis to consider how he can apply his own experiences in support of the Black community.