Gilman Louie

Gilman Louie (born 1960) is an American technology venture capitalist and former video game designer. He is co-founder and chief executive (CEO) of America's Frontier Fund, a non profit investment fund focused on emerging technologies. Louie served as the first chief executive of In-Q-Tel, the venture capital firm created to invest in technologies of interest to the United States intelligence community.

Through his company Nexa Corporation, Louie designed and developed multiple computer games such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon flight simulator series.

Early life and education Louie was born in San Francisco. He graduated in 1983 from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. In 1997, he attended the then thirteen-week Advanced Management Program (AMP) and International Senior Management Program (ISMP) at Harvard Business School.

Venture capital In 1999 Louie co-founded and became the CEO of the non-profit Peleus (later In-Q-It and then In-Q-Tel). The company was created with $30 million in seed money from the US federal government, Zephyr Technologies, the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, Aerospike, GreatSchools and the Chinese American International School in San Francisco. He is on the board of the Markle Foundation, Greatschools.org and Digital Promise. Louie is chairman of the Federation of American Scientists and the Mandarin Institute. In September 2015, he was elected chairman of a US-based 3D Geospatial Mapping company, Vricon. He was vice chairman of the standing committee on Technology, Insight-Gauge, Evaluate and Review for the United States National Academies. He also chaired the committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies for the United States National Academies that produced two reports.

In 2009, representing his company Alsop Louie Partners, he sat as a member of the committee for The Symposium on Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow's Warfighter working alongside Raytheon.

In May 2022, Louie was appointed as a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. In June 2022, he was appointed as a member of the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

Credits Video games designed, programmed and/or produced: Falcon 4.0 (1998), MicroProse Falcon Gold (1994), Spectrum HoloByte Falcon 3.0: MiG-29 (1993), Spectrum HoloByte Falcon 3.0: Hornet (1993), Spectrum HoloByte Falcon 3.0: Operation Fighting Tiger (1992), Spectrum HoloByte Falcon 3.0 (1991), Spectrum HoloByte Crisis in the Kremlin (1991), Spectrum HoloByte Super Tetris (1991), Spectrum HoloByte Stunt Driver (1990), Spectrum HoloByte Tank: The M1A1 Abrams Battle Tank Simulation (1989), Spectrum HoloByte Falcon A.T. (1989), Spectrum HoloByte Vette! (1989), Spectrum HoloByte L.A. Crackdown (1988), Epyx Falcon (1987), Spectrum HoloByte The World's Greatest Football Game (1985) Epyx Captain Cosmo (1984), ASCII Corporation F-16 Fighting Falcon (1984), ASCII Corporation, Sega Starship Simulator (1984), ASCII Corporation Delta Squadron (1983), Nexa Corporation Starship Commander (1981), Voyager Software Battle Trek (1981), Voyager Software

Awards 1988 George Washington High School (San Francisco) Hall of Merit 1988 Excellence in Software Awards (Codie awards), Software and Information Industry Association (formerly the Software Publishers Association): Best Technical Achievement, Best Simulation, Best Action/Strategy Game for Falcon 1993 Asian Business League's Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year 1995 San Francisco State University Hall of Fame 2002 Scientific American Fifty 2004 Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Navigator Award 2005 Federal 100 Award, Federal Computer Week 2006 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency medallion for outstanding service and support to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency while CEO and President of In-Q-Tel 2006 CIA Agency Seal Medallions (2) for his service to the intelligence community 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 2007 Order of the Silver Helmet, Delta Sigma Pi 2008 Director of National Intelligence Medallion for service within the Intelligence Community 2021 Tech Titans, by the Washingtonian (magazine) for Cybersecurity 2021 Theodore Roosevelt Government Leadership Award by Government Executive for significant, lasting achievements around emerging technologies and cybersecurity 2023 Arthur C. Lundahl—Thomas C. Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award by United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation 2025 Charlie Allen Award for Distinguished Intelligence Service Award by AFCEA International