Venture Partner, Palisades Ventures, LLC

Henry Lichstein is a Venture Partner with Palisades Ventures, LLC, a venture capital management company in Los Angeles investing in companies in broadband and interactive services. He also consults for technology companies and serves on a number of Boards.

From 1970 to 2000 he was with Citibank, most recently responsible for technology strategy and advanced development efforts, reporting to Chairman John Reed. He did the early work on Citibank’s commercial Web sites, ran Smart Card pilots in Manhattan’s Upper West Side and worldwide, pioneered early Electronic Commerce activities, spoke widely and championed E-Commerce in China, and made a number of successful Internet investments for Citibank. In the 1980’s, Henry managed technology projects and ventures, and was an assistant to the Chairman. In the 1970’s, he was Regional Treasurer in Nairobi, Kenya; the Consumer Group’s Financial Controller, Treasurer; and Chief of Staff to the Group Head.

Henry obtained BS degrees in Electrical Engineering (1965) and in Economics (1966), and an MS in Management (1966), all at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Henry is the Treasurer of the Summer Science Program, Inc., was a Trustee of the Santa Fe Institute, is on the Boards of Lucix and Intelligent Optical Systems, and was on the Board of Teradata (sold to AT&T). He was Treasurer of the New York Academy of Sciences for ten years; and served on the Higher Education Issues Panel of the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities, and on the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee to Study the Impact of Information Technology on Performance of Service Activities. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, and he and his wife, Janine, and son, Alexander, live in Los Angeles.