Thomas Gillespie
Managing Partner at In
Thomas Gillespie
Managing Partner at In
Arlington, Virginia
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2005 - Current
In-Q-Tel is the strategic investment firm affiliated with the U.S. Intelligence Community. Serve as Managing Partner on the Washington, DC Investment Team, and investment lead for In-Q-Tel's Field Technologies Practice, which is focused on commercial space, Internet of Things, next-gen communications, autonomous vehicles, materials, robotics, and power sources, among other areas. Also co-founded CosmiQ Works, In-Q-Tel's research organization focused on leveraging emerging commercial space capabilities to solve intelligence challenges.
Management Consultant
2003 - 2005
Strategic consulting for both commercial (financial services, telecommunications) and government (defense, national security) clients.
Chief Operating Officer
1999 - 2003
Co-founded a technology commercialization firm that created and/or worked with startup technology ventures emerging from universities, national laboratories, and other research institutions.
Senior Engagement Manager, AT&T Solutions Consulting Practice
1995 - 1999
Internet/e-business strategy consulting for clients in the financial services, media, and information technology verticals.
Project Manager
1993 - 1995
Worked for the international trade consultancy associated with Joint Venture: Silicon Valley.
Associate
1990 - 1992
Worked for a company establishing joint ventures between Western corporations and companies within the Soviet Union, primarily Ukraine and the Baltic states. Helped stage a conference in Kyiv in June 1991 designed to teach the democratic opposition of Ukraine how to establish and run a democratic capitalist system. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, spent the summer of 1992 in Moscow working for the Russian Privatization Institute.
Legislative Associate
1987 - 1990
Served as a Legislative Associate for a Congressman from Texas, focused on banking, foreign affairs, telecommunications, and aerospace issues.