Ambassador Gips was appointed by President Barack Obama on June 4 and confirmed by the Senate on July 7, 2009.

[1][2] In February 2019,[3] Gips was announced as the incoming CEO of the Skoll Foundation, taking over for the retired Sally Osberg.

He began as CEO on April 9, 2019, at the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.

Previously he was the Divisional Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development for Level 3 Communications[5] and Director of Mindspeed Technologies.

[6] In the late 1990s Gips served as Vice President Al Gore's Chief Domestic Policy Advisor.