A week after announcing it will open a new full-time office in Milwaukee, TitletownTech made another big addition Monday.
The venture capital firm announced the addition of a former congressman, Mike Gallagher, to its team as a senior strategic adviser. Gallagher, a Republican, served as Wisconsin’s 8th District representative from 2017 until he stepped down last month.
In his new role, Gallagher will draw on his congressional experience in national security and tech policy to help TitletownTech grow the startups in its portfolio, according to the organization.
This move comes less than two months after the four-term representative announced in late March that he would resign from Congress, effective April 19, months before his final term ended. At the time, Gallagher said he wanted to focus more on his family, according to an interview with The Washington Post.
TItletownTech leaders said Gallagher can provide insights into public policy and global markets that he learned during his time in government. Gallagher, a former Marine Corps intelligence officer who focused on international relations, is known for his roles in national security, defense technology and cybersecurity.
During his time in Congress, he was the founding chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United State and the Chinese Communist Party. This helped make him a key figure in the bill that aims to ban social media app TikTok from app stores and web hosting services unless it severs its ties from foreign adversaries.
"His leadership in Congress and deep knowledge of technology and security will be crucial as we continue to back transformative companies in various sectors," TitletownTech Managing Partner Craig Dickman said in a release.
TitletownTech is a venture capital firm formed out of a partnership between the Green Bay Packers and Microsoft in 2019. It invests in companies across several sectors, including advanced manufacturing and construction, supply chain and logistics, digital health, agriculture, water, environment, sports and media.
The group has been in the spotlight this past week for its involvement in Microsoft's $3.3 billion planned investment to build a data center campus and AI-focused tech hub in Wisconsin, in much of the location where Foxconn had initially mapped out its $10 billion tech and manufacturing presence before largely pulling back on those plans.
