Gilman Louie
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Gilman Louie is 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
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...
. He attended the Advanced Management Program (AMP) while at Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...
in 1997.
Venture capital
Gilman Louie is a partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capitalVenture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
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
In-Q-Tel
In-Q-Tel of Arlington, Virginia, United States is a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability...
, a non-profit company created to help enhance national security by connecting the United States Intelligence Community
United States Intelligence Community
The United States Intelligence Community is a cooperative federation of 16 separate United States government agencies that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the national security of the...
with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies and making venture capital style investments in promising new technologies.
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 simulatorFalcon (computer game)
The Falcon line of computer games is a series of simulations of the F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft. The games were developed and published by Spectrum HoloByte...
as well as being the person who licensed Tetris
Tetris
Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...
, the world’s most popular computer game, from its developers in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. During that career, Louie founded and ran a company called Nexa Corporation that merged with Spectrum HoloByte
Spectrum HoloByte
Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher originally based in Alameda, California.The company was founded in 1983 and was most famous for its simulation games, notably the Falcon series of flight simulators and Vette!, a driving simulator from 1989...
which later acquired MicroProse
MicroProse
MicroProse was a video game publisher and developer, founded by Wild Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982 as Microprose Software. In 1993, the company became a subsidiary of Spectrum HoloByte and has remained a subsidiary or brand name under several other corporations since...
. The company was acquired by Hasbro Corporation
Hasbro
Hasbro is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States...
, where he served as chief creative officer of Hasbro Interactive and general manager of the Games.com group before founding In-Q-Tel.
Video game credits
Designed, programmed and/or produced:- Falcon 4.0Falcon 4.0Falcon 4.0 is an air combat simulation originally released on December 12, 1998 by MicroProse. It is a realistic simulation of the Block 50/52 F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighter in a full scale modern war set in the Korean Peninsula. Falcon 4.0s dynamic campaign engine runs autonomously...
(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 KremlinCrisis in the KremlinCrisis in the Kremlin is a 1991 video game in which the player acts as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 2017. The player assumes the role of the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev, the nationalist Boris Yeltsin, or the hardline Yegor Ligachev...
(1991), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. - Super Tetris (1991), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
- Stunt DriverStunt DriverStunt Driver is a racing game released in 1990. It allowed the user to create a racetrack from components such as draw-bridges, banked curves, oil slicks, water hazards, and loops, then race on them alone, against computer-controlled opponents, or against another user via a modem or null-modem...
(1990), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. - Tank: The M1A1 Abrams Battle Tank Simulation (1989), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
- Falcon AT (1989), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
- Vette!Vette!Vette! is a 1989 racing video game where the object is racing a Chevrolet Corvette through the streets of San Francisco. The game was notable for its detailed un-shaded polygon rendering of San Francisco streets. It was released on three floppy disks with a Black & White or Color version available...
(1989), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. - LA Crackdown (1988), Epyx
- FalconFalcon (computer game)The Falcon line of computer games is a series of simulations of the F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft. The games were developed and published by Spectrum HoloByte...
(1987), Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. - Captain Cosmo (1984), ASCII Corporation
- F16 Fighting Falcon (1984), ASCII Corporation, SegaSega, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...
- World's Greatest Football (1984) EpyxEpyxEpyx, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. The company was founded as Automated Simulations by Jim Connelley and Jon Freeman, originally using Epyx as a brand name for action-oriented games before renaming the company to match in 1983...
- Starship Simulator (1984), ASCII Corporation
- Delta Squadron (1983), Nexa Corporation
- Starship Commander (1981), Voyager Software
- Battle Trek (1980), Voyager Software
Board activities
Louie has served on a number of boards of directors, including Wizards of the CoastWizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games...
, Total Entertainment Network
Total Entertainment Network
Total Entertainment Network was an online gaming service that existed from September, 1996 until October, 1999. T E Network, Inc., which created and operated the TEN service, was formed from the merger of Optigon Interactive and Outland in June, 1995 when they received their first round of venture...
, Direct Language, FASA Interactive
FASA Interactive
FASA Studio was a video game developer that was founded in 1995 by the tabletop game company FASA Corporation, Spectrum HoloByte and Denny Thorley....
, Netwitness, Moonshoot, Smith and Tinker, Framehawk, New Mentor, Gridspeak, the National Venture Capital Association
National Venture Capital Association
The National Venture Capital Association is the leading trade association representing the venture capital industry in the U.S. The NVCA represents the venture industry in public policy debates in Washington, DC, and promotes high professional standards, professional development, and interaction...
(NVCA), 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.
Awards
- 2008 Director of National Intelligence Medallion for service towards establishing an environment of equality, diversity and inclusion within the Intelligence Community
- 2007 Order of the Silver Helmet, Delta Sigma PiDelta Sigma PiΔΣΠ ' is one of the largest co-ed professional business fraternities. Delta Sigma Pi was founded on November 7, 1907 at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, New York University, New York, New York and is currently headquartered in Oxford, Ohio...
. - 2006 Director's Award by the Director of the Central Intelligence AgencyCentral Intelligence AgencyThe Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
, 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 for Policy StudiesPotomac Institute for Policy StudiesThe Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is an independent, 501, not-for-profit public policy research institute located in Arlington, Virginia. The Institute was founded in 1994, shortly after the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment was disbanded, with the intent to assume some of the...
Navigator Award. - 2002 Scientific AmericanScientific AmericanScientific American is a popular science magazine. It is notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics...
Fifty. - 1988 Excellence in Software Awards (CODiE AwardsCodie awardsThe CODiE awards are annual awards issued by the Software and Information Industry Association for excellence in software development within the software industry....
), Software and Information Industry AssociationSoftware and Information Industry AssociationThe Software & Information Industry Association is a United States based software trade association. The organization lobbies United States policy makers as well as conducting surveys and research and many conferences and webcasts....
(formerly the Software Publishing Association): Best Technical Achievement, Best Simulation, Best Action/Strategy Game for Falcon. - 1993 San Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...
Hall of Fame. - 1993 Asian Business League's Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year.
- 1988 George Washington High School (San Francisco)George Washington High School (San Francisco)George Washington High School is a public high school in Richmond District, San Francisco, California. The school is a part of the San Francisco Unified School District...
Hall of Merit.
Other activities
Vice Chairman of the standing committee on Technology, Insight-Gauge, Evaluate and Review for the United States National AcademiesUnited States National Academies
The United States National Academies comprises four organizations:* National Academy of Sciences * National Academy of Engineering * Institute of Medicine * National Research Council...
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Chaired the committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies for the United States National Academies that produced 2 reports.
Member of the Technical Advisory Group of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is dedicated to overseeing the United States Intelligence Community—the agencies and bureaus of the federal government of the United States who provide information and analysis for leaders of the executive and legislative branches. The...
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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
Raytheon
Raytheon Company is a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. It was previously involved in corporate and special-mission aircraft until early 2007...
employees (Raytheon that year bought out BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies is a high-technology company which provides research and development services. BBN is based next to Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA...
).
External links
- Alsop Louie Partners
- http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/fy98/053.htm
- http://www.markle.org/markle_programs/policy_for_a_networked_society/national_security/index.php
- http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2005_rpt/vital.pdf
- http://www.nextgenerationproject.org/images/stories/documents/assembly1/report%20final_w_cover.pdf