With over 30 years of experience, Allen Gelwick drives successful outcomes across complex projects and transactions, leveraging deep expertise in risk, insurance, finance, and technology to support transformative innovation across clean, advanced energy, and other critical industries.

Gelwick's decades of experience, and expansive knowledge, cross-disciplinary insight, to see opportunity, risk and solutions between the gaps vertical specialization align capital to risk. His integrative approach, bridges, insurers, investors, legal, and other advisors building trust, empowering a culture of connection, creativity, and sustainable impact.

Gelwick is an Executive Vice President, Partner, and co-founder of Lockton Houston. Lockton is the world's largest privately held independent professional services firm in insurance, reinsurance, risk management, human capital, and wellbeing.

He currently is a Board member of Convergence Ventures, CV Bio Manufacturing, LLC, and Board Advisor, NACD Texas TriCities Chapter, REAL and Aqua-Infra. He has previously, a Sponsor and Director IPO a public company, served on the Executive Committee of Houston Symphony, and Chair of Foundation for Arts, and Culture Enrichment

Gelwick is an accomplished speaker and thought leader whose engagements include “Winter is Coming for Renewables: Successfully Navigating the Storm,” the Houston Business Journal’s Energy Transition Houston Conference, Austin EarthX’s “Overcoming Challenges to Scaling First-of-a-Kind Solutions,” and the Dallas EarthX Capital Summit’s Innovator Workshop. He has presented as a panelist at the 2024 Baker Botts Annual Board of Directors Forum and was named to the NACD Director 100 in 2024. His broader contributions as a speaker, presenter, writer, and interviewer span prominent organizations such as National RIMS, ASME, Nature Nanotechnology, and NanoBCA. Mr. Gelwick has participated in and underwritten three Royal Institution events featuring Dr. Malcolm Gillis, Dr. Mihail C. Roco, and Dr. Mike Meador, and he has sponsored multiple Royal Institution programs on the convergence of biotechnology, computer science, and materials science. His commitment to education and the arts includes chairing the Foundation for Arts, Culture & Education, serving as an advisor and sponsor for EWI educational awards, and endowing the University of Houston’s annual Ethics Series in honor of Dr. Rev. Richard Gelwick. He is also a lifetime member of the Society for Values in Higher Education and served for eight years on the Houston Symphony Executive Board, including during its 100th anniversary year.

Proud Father, Uncle and Grandfather, avid sailor and blessed to have a home in Maine on the ocean.