Gilman Louie (born 1960) is technology venture capitalist who got his start as a video game designer and then ran the CIA venture capital fund.[1] He graduated in 1983 from San Francisco State University. He attended the Advanced Management Program (AMP) while at Harvard Business School in 1997.
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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, Zephyr Technologies, Netwitness and Gowalla.
He was the first 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.
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.[1] 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.
Designed, programmed and/or produced:
Louie has served on a number of boards of directors, including Wizards of the Coast, Total Entertainment Network, Direct Language, FASA Interactive, Netwitness, Moonshoot, Smith and Tinker, Framehawk, New Mentor, Gridspeak, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)[2], Zephyr Technologies, the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, GreatSchools and the Chinese American International School in San Francisco. He serves as a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, the board of Visitors of CIA University and a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency's Advisory Board. Louie is chairman of the Federation of American Scientists as well as the Mandarin Institute.
Vice Chairman of the standing committee on Technology, Insight-Gauge, Evaluate and Review for the United States National Academies.
Chaired the committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies for the United States National Academies that produced 2 reports.[3][4]
Member of the Technical Advisory Group of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Member of the National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community.
The Next Generation Project Fellow, The American Assembly, Columbia University
In 2009 Represnting his company Alsop Louie Partners he sat as a member of the committee for The Symposium on Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrrow's Warfighter working alongside Raytheon employees (Raytheon that year bought out BBN Technologies).[5]