Matt Miller

Matt Miller has worked in the technology industry for more than thirty years with significant experience in optics, spectroscopy, semiconductors and broadband digital communications.  A serial entrepreneur with deep technical background in multiple domains, Miller was most recently CEO of Multispectral Imaging (infrared detectors) from its formation in 2004 through its sale in 2008.

He was  CEO of NxtWave Communications, a leading supplier of semiconductor chips for emerging digital television markets world-wide, from 1997 until its acquisition in 2002 by ATI Technologies.

Prior to NxtWave, Miller was Vice President of Technology at General Instrument Corporation (leading supplier of cable tv equipment), where he was a line report to Donald Rumsfeld during the company’s privatization and turn-around period as a Forstmann Little portfolio company. He played a significant role in the formulation and execution of the company’s broadband digital strategy, including major contributions to the development of digital television, optical communications for cable television, and cable modems.

Before joining General Instrument, Miller was Vice President of Technology at Viacom, a horizontally integrated communications company with interests in cable and satellite television.

He began his career as a member of technical staff in the semiconductor device group of the David Sarnoff Research Center (RCA Laboratories) and also worked as a high technology program manager at Perkin-Elmer, developing a number of airborne and space-based instruments for remote sensing and spectroscopy.

Miller has also consulted extensively to both the private equity and venture capital communities and has served on numerous boards of directors of public and private companies in addition to having served on investor advisory boards.

Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University.