Grant Lichtman is the Chief Operating Officer of Francis Parker School in San Diego, California, one of the oldest and largest independent schools on the West Coast. Before coming to Parker, he was a principal in several geo-science companies with interests as close to home as southern California and as far reaching as northern Siberia. Mr. Lichtman graduated from Stanford University with a BS and MS in marine geology in 1980 and participated in a number of research expeditions studying the deep ocean basins. He has also been a principal with companies involved with forensic engineering and the development of high school curriculum. He and his wife Julie live in Poway, just north of San Diego. Their son, Josh, is getting his PhD in cellular biology at Stanford; their daughter Cassidy is finishing a BA and MA at Stanford in History and is a volleyball rock star.
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