Is Chief Development Officer of Burford Capital, the leading provider of legal finance. Travis previously co-founded and was Managing Partner of a national law firm and its European counterpart; he also launched a litigation-related investment advisory business that Burford later acquired. Before starting his own enterprises, Travis was Senior Counsel at The Boeing Company and an attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Travis was a law clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the Supreme Court of the United States and for then-Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He was born and raised on a farm and ranch in rural Kansas, but is now based in London and Chilmark with his wife and their two children.