Gilman Louie is the CEO and co-founder of America's Frontier Fund. He has over 30 years of national security and investment experience. He served as an early CEO of In-Q-Tel – the pioneering technology investment firm funded by the CIA (1999–2006), as an expert to the Defense Innovation Board (2016–20), and as a commissioner on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (2018–21). In addition to being a co-founder and partner at Alsop Louie Partners, Gilman is a co-founder and CEO of the America's Frontier Fund. Gilman is currently chair of the National Intelligence University and the Federation of American Scientists and a member of the President's Intelligence advisory board and the US Department of State's Foreign Affairs policy board. He serves on numerous other commercial and advisory boards, including Maxar Technologies, Niantic, and Aerospike and the nonprofit Markle Foundation and Federation of American Scientists. He has also served on the Diversity Senior Advisory Panel for the Intelligence Community and as a member of the Technology Advisory Group to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Gilman is the recipient of the CIA Agency Seal Medallion (2004), the CIA Director's Award (2006), the Agency Seal Medallion (2006), and the Director of National Intelligence Medallion (2008). He received his BS in business administration from San Francisco State University, where he graduated magna cum laude.