Gilman Louie

Gilman Louie is a partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capital fund focused on helping entrepreneurs start companies. He is the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security by connecting the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. intelligence community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies. Previously, Gilman built a career as a pioneer 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 the Soviet Union. During that career, Gilman founded and ran a company called Spectrum Holobyte, which ultimately 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.

Gilman has served on a number of boards of directors, including Wizards of the Coast, Total Entertainment Network, Direct Language, FASA Interactive, and most recently the National Venture Capital Association. He serves as a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. In 2006, Gilman was presented with the Directors 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. Gilman completed the Advanced Management Program/International Seniors Management Program at Harvard Business School and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from San Francisco State University.

James L. Whims

James L. Whims has recently joined the board of Synaptics, Inc, which is traded on the NASDAQ. He has been a director of THQ since April 1997.

Since 1996, Mr. Whims has been a Managing Director of TechFund Capital I, L.P., TechFund Capital II, L.P., and since 2001, TechFund Capital Europe, venture capital firms concentrating on high-technology enterprises. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Whims was Executive Vice President of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Whims was Executive Vice President of The Software Toolworks Inc. Mr. Whims is also a board member of Portal Player, Inc. and numerous private company boards.

Ryan McIntyre

Ryan is a co-founder and Managing Director at Foundry Group, a $225m early stage venture capital fund established in 2007. Prior to Foundry Group, Ryan was a Principal at Mobius Venture Capital, a firm he joined in 2000. Notable investments Ryan has made as a venture investor and/or angel investor include Postini (acquired by Google), Sling Media (acquired by EchoStar) and StubHub (acquired by eBay).

Prior to joining Mobius Venture Capital, Ryan co-founded Excite in 1993, which went public in 1996 and later became Excite@Home following the $6.7 billion merger of Excite and @Home in 1999. At the time this acquisition was the largest internet transaction to date and created a company that achieved peak revenues of $616 million in 2000. There Ryan held the role of Principal Engineer and was a key technological contributor to the company’s search engine and content management systems and also led the design and implementation of Excite’s community and commerce platforms. Ryan was also responsible for integrating engineering teams and technologies into Excite’s infrastructure following the acquisitions of several companies based in Seattle and Austin.

Prior to Excite, Ryan was a member of the technical staff for the Hewlett Packard Division at Oracle Corporation, where he worked on several releases of the Oracle Office platform. Before joining Oracle, Ryan was a software engineer at Canon Research of America, where he focused on the development of optical character recognition algorithms.

Ryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University. While at Stanford, he published research on genetic algorithms in The First IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, and studied abroad at Stanford's overseas campus in Berlin, Germany.

Randy Rissman

Randy O. Rissman is the Founder and Managing Director of Leo Capital. Prior to founding Leo Capital, Mr. Rissman was the Founder and CEO of Tiger Electronics, Inc., a $400 million electronic toy and game company he sold to Hasbro, Inc. in 1998. Randy holds an MBA from The Harvard Business School and a BBA from The University of Michigan.

Steve Arnold

Steve is a co-founder and venture partner of Polaris Ventures focusing on investments in information technology and digital media. Prior to Polaris, Steve served as a special advisor to Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. following more than 10 years in executive positions in the software industry. He served as vice president of Broadband Media Applications at Microsoft Corporation and as president and CEO of Continuum Productions (now Corbis), a private company founded by Bill Gates to pioneer the creation of large digital libraries for online distribution. Before coming to Continuum, Steve served as vice president and general manager of LucasArts Games and Learning divisions, and vice president of the New Media Group at Lucasfilm Ltd. He continues to serve as vice chairman of the board of directors of the George Lucas Educational Foundation.