Gilman Louie is CEO and Co-Founder of America’s Frontier Fund, a nonprofit deep-tech fund that invests strategic capital in foundational technologies critical to U.S. national security. Mr. Louie is also the Co-Founder and Partner of Alsop Louie Partners, an early-stage technology venture capital firm that focuses on disruptive and innovative technologies, and has made investments in the areas of cyber security, predictive analytics, education, and entertainment. From 1999 until 2006, Mr. Louie was the first CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security by connecting the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. intelligence community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies.
Prior to joining In-Q-Tel, Mr. Louie was a pioneer in the interactive entertainment industry, where he designed the famous Falcon F-16 flight simulator game and was the original person to license Tetris, the world’s most popular computer game, from its developers in the Soviet Union. During that part of his career, Gilman founded and ran a publicly traded company called Spectrum HoloByte which ultimately was acquired by Hasbro Corporation, where he served as chief creative officer of Hasbro Interactive and GM of the Games.com group before joining In-Q-Tel.
Mr. Louie serves on a number of boards of directors, including the National Intelligence University Board of Visitors and as Chair of the Federation of American Scientists and he previously served as a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). Mr. Louie was awarded the CIA Agency Seal Medallion in 2004 and the Director of National Intelligence Medallion in 2008. Mr. Louie received his B.S. in Business Administration from San Francisco State University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) and the International Seniors Management Program (ISMP) from Harvard University Graduate Business School.
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