- Gilman Louie
Gilman Louie is a west coast technology
venture capitalist who got his start as a video game designer and then ran theCIA venture capital fund. He graduated in 1983 fromSan Francisco State University . He attended the Advance Management Program [http://www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/amp/] (AMP) while atHarvard Business School in 1997.Venture capital
Gilman Louie is a partner of
Alsop Louie Partners , aventure 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 theUnited States Intelligence Community 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 simulator as well as being the person who licensed "
Tetris ," the world’s most popular computer game, from its developers in theSoviet Union . During that career, Louie founded and ran a company called Nexa Corporation that merged withSpectrum HoloByte which later acquiredMicroProse . 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.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.
* "" (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 SoftwareBoard activities
Louie has served on a number of boards of directors, including
Wizards of the Coast ,Total Entertainment Network , Direct Language,FASA Interactive , theNational Venture Capital Association , 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.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.
*2002Scientific 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".
*1993San Francisco State University Hall of Fame.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
External links
* [http://alsop-louie.com Alsop Louie Partners]
*moby developer|id=3490|name=Gilman Louie
* 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.in-q-tel.com/news/attachments/GilmanLouieTAPPStatement.pdf
* http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2005_rpt/vital.pdf
* http://www.fcw.com/article88357-03-21-05-Print&printLayout
* http://onthecommons.org/node/640
* http://www.nextgenerationproject.org/images/stories/documents/assembly1/report%20final_w_cover.pdf
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