Sector: Disruptive Tech, Consumer Tech, Gaming, Augmented Reality, Geo-location							

Niantic is a software company focused on augmented reality mobile games.  The company was spun out of Google in October 2015. The company  launched the mobile game Pokémon Go in July 2016, and the game became an  overnight global phenomenon. The game topped app store charts in most  regions for top-free app and top-grossing app, and Apple announced the  app had the most downloads in a first week ever.

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Gilman Louie 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—from 1999-2006, as an expert to the Defense Innovation Board from 2016-2020, and as a Commissioner on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence from 2018-2021.

In addition to being a co-founder and partner at Alsop Louie Partners, he is also a co-founder and CEO of the America’s Frontier Fund.   Gilman is currently the Chairman of the National Intelligence University, Chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, and of the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He serves on numerous commercial and advisory boards, including Maxar Technologies, Niantic, and Aerospike. 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), CIA Director’s Award (2006), Agency Seal Medallion (2006), and Director of National Intelligence Medallion (2008). Gilman received his B.S. in Business Administration from San Francisco State University where he graduated magna cum laude.

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Disruptive Tech, Consumer Tech, Gaming, Augmented Reality, Geo-location

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