Gilman Louie

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Gilman Louie is a west coast technology venture capitalist who got his start as a video game designer and then ran the CIA venture capital fund. He graduated in 1983 from San Francisco State University. He attended the Advance Management Program [1] (AMP) while at Harvard Business School in 1997.

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[edit] Venture capital

Gilman Louie is a partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capital fund focused on helping entrepreneurs start companies. Known investments of Alsop Louie Partners include Ribbit, Smith & Tinker, Redux, and Alamofire.

He is the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a non-profit company created to help enhance national security by connecting the United States Intelligence Community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies and making venture capital style investments in promising new technologies.

[edit] Video games

Previously Louie built a career in the interactive entertainment industry, with accomplishments that include the design and development of the Falcon F-16 flight simulator as well as being the person who licensed Tetris, the world’s most popular computer game, from its developers in the Soviet Union. During that career, Louie founded and ran a company called Nexa Corporation that merged with Spectrum HoloByte which later acquired MicroProse. The company was acquired by Hasbro Corporation, where he served as chief creative officer of Hasbro Interactive and general manager of the Games.com group before founding In-Q-Tel.

[edit] Video game credits

Designed, programmed and/or produced:

  • Falcon 4.0 (1998), MicroProse, Inc.
  • Falcon Gold (1994), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • Falcon 3.0: Hornet: Naval Strike Fighter (1993), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • Falcon 3.0: MiG-29 (1993), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • Falcon 3.0: Operation Fighting Tiger (1992), MicroProse Software, Inc., Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • Falcon 3.0 (1991), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • Crisis in the Kremlin (1991), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • Super Tetris (1991), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • Stunt Driver (1990), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • Tank: The M1A1 Abrams Battle Tank Simulation (1989), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • Falcon AT (1989), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • Vette! (1989), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • LA Crackdown (1988), Epyx
  • Falcon (1987), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
  • Captain Cosmo (1984), ASCII Corporation
  • F16 Fighting Falcon (1984), ASCII Corporation, Sega
  • World's Greatest Football (1984) Epyx
  • Starship Simulator (1984), ASCII Corporation
  • Delta Squadron (1983), Nexa Corporation
  • Starship Commander (1981), Voyager Software
  • Battle Trek (1980), Voyager Software

[edit] Board activities

Louie has served on a number of boards of directors, including Wizards of the Coast, Total Entertainment Network, Direct Language, FASA Interactive, and most recently the National Venture Capital Association. He serves as a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.

[edit] Awards

  • 2006 Director's Award by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Porter Goss, for his service in creating In-Q-Tel and providing service to the intelligence community.
  • 2006 CIA Agency Seal Medallions (2) for his service to the intelligence community.
  • 2006 National Geospatial Intelligence Agency medallion for outstanding service and support to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency while serving as CEO and President of In-Q-Tel
  • 2005 Federal 100 Award, Federal Computer Week.
  • 2004 Potomac Institute Navigator Award.
  • 2002 Scientific American Fifty.
  • 1988 Excellence in Software Awards (CODiE Awards), Software and Information Industry Association (formerly the Software Publishing Association): Best Technical Achievement, Best Simulation, Best Action/Strategy Game for Falcon.
  • 1993 San Francisco State University Hall of Fame.

[edit] Other activities

Member of the standing committee on Technology, Insight-Gauge, Evaluate and Review for the United States National Academies.

The Next Generation Project Fellow, The American Assembly, Columbia University

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