Kris Lichter
Operating Partner @Victory Six Advisors
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WORK HISTORY
Operating Partner @Victory Six Advisors
Washington, DC, US
Victory Six Advisors accelerates the development and growth of early stage technology companies in the defense, dual use and deeptech spaces. As an Operating Partner, I work with our portfolio companies and clients to optimize their business strategies, partnerships, finances, marketing and other business functions. I also support LP syndication when Victory Six participates in select early stage investments.
EDUCATION
University of Cambridge
N/A, Economics and Political Science
Harvard Kennedy School
Executive Strategic Negotiations Certificate
The Bishop's School
High school diploma
Bucknell University
BA, Biology, Economics (Double)
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
MBA, Marketing, New Product Development
SKILLS
ABOUT KRIS LICHTER
Committed servant leader that thrives on building world-class, high-performance teams that develop and apply emerging technologies to unlock transformative opportunities and solve complex challenges. Explorer-at-heart who enjoys flying anything he can get his hands on (private pilot), surfing, travel, theater, cooking, and making the world a better place.Business expertise: Innovation, strategy, operations and business development. Equal time spent in the Fortune 500 and early stage technology startups.Technical focal areas: Dual use, energy, space, quantum computing, bioengineering, AI/ML and other deeptech technologies.Career Highlights Include: COMPANY TRANSFORMATION—Secured $30M in funding and transitioned mobile (fuel cell) power company into a leading renewable energy solutions provider, generating a 600% increase in contracts while delivering a 75% reduction in (solid hydrogen) fuel production cost. ENTREPRENEURSHIP - Co-founder of a deep tech (agtech) bioengineering startup. Established family office to develop a portfolio of leading edge technology companies in space, quantum computing, cryptography, renewable energy, AI and machine learning. GLOBAL BUSINESS INNOVATION AND GROWTH - Scaled IBM program into a best-in-class socioeconomic innovation engine that generated $450M and spawned IBM’s $5B Smarter Cities business line. INVESTOR - Early stage investor in deep tech startups, including NanoRacks, a leading space services company that was acquired by Voyager Technologies at a strong multiple. Voyager subsequently went public June 2025. PROGRAM LEADERSHIP - Led IBM’s partnership with the National Geographic Society on The Genographic Project, a first-of-its-kind global genetic genealogy and bioinformatics scientific project.
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