Henry Lichstein

Henry Lichstein is Managing Partner of Dryad Partners, his consulting company. He takes interim CEO/CFO roles, consults for technology-based companies, and serves on boards. From 1970 to 2000 Henry was with Citibank, holding positions in financial control, treasury, technology strategy, and advanced development efforts. He did the early work on Citi’s commercial Web sites, Smart Card and Electronic Commerce activities, spoke on payments and E-Commerce in the US and China, and made a number of successful technology investments. He held Treasury, Financial Control, and other staff jobs, and wrote a report for the Group of 30 on Clearance and Settlement in the world’s securities markets. Henry joined Palisades Ventures in 2000, focusing on broadband technology investments, and worked with venture companies. He was CFO of PrivaSys, a transaction card company; Interim CEO of Roubini Global Economics in New York City; and Interim CFO at Lucix, a satellite communications company in Camarillo, CA. He is now CFO of Parking In Motion, a parking information company. Henry obtained BS degrees in Electrical Engineering (1965) and in Economics (1966), and an MS in Management (1966), all at MIT. He was on the Board of Teradata (an NASD company sold to AT&T in 1991), was Chairman of the Board of Lucix, and is on the board of Intelligent Optical Systems. He was Chairman of the Summer Science Program, Inc., and is a Trustee of the Santa Fe Institute. He is on an MIT Visiting Committee, was for ten years Treasurer of the New York Academy of Sciences, served on a Panel of the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities, and helped write a National Academy of Sciences’ study. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he and his wife, Janine, and their son and his family live in Los Angeles.