TOM
MILLER,
MANAGING PARTNER
Over the past 30-plus years, working independently as a
serial entrepreneur as well as a serial intrapreneur within multi-national
corporations, Tom has focused on recognizing outstanding new technology opportunities and successfully forming and leading new enterprises.
His career has included leadership roles at both Fortune 1000 companies such
as Texas Instruments, NCR, Fairchild Semiconductor, Fujitsu and Dupont, and
entrepreneurial ventures such as Integrated CMOS Systems and VIA
Technologies. Tom's extensive experience and expertise spans business
development, sales and marketing, brand management, operations (general
management), and manufacturing. He is a Founding Partner of
Endeavor Innovation Partners and is also a
Principal with E3 Innovation, Inc.
Tom's
earliest successes were at Texas Instruments where he led business
development efforts to develop electronic sound generators and controllers
for integration into leading consumer electronic products for the toy and
game industry. Parker Brothers, Coleco, Milton Bradley and many others
introduced products incorporating the TI technology, resulting in revenue
growth from zero to over $50 million annually within 3 years. Tom later led
efforts to commercialize the first RISC microprocessors, initially at NCR
and then at Fairchild, followed by his first entrepreneurial efforts with
Integrated CMOS Systems (sold to Toshiba) and VIA Technologies (now a major
international IC company in Taiwan). At Fujitsu Microelectronics from 1992
to 1996 Tom initiated efforts to restructure US semiconductor operations,
reducing operating costs by more than $20 million while increasing sales
from less than $190 million to over $600 million within 3 years.
Since 1998,
Tom has advised or participated in the formation of more than 15 other high
technology start-ups, most recently as President and general manager of
DuPont Displays passive matrix polymer OLED displays headquartered in Santa
Barbara, CA, interim COO for Anadigm, a field programmable analog array
company headquartered in Tempe, AZ, and as founding CEO for Pliable
Technologies, a planned spin-out of the ASU Flexible Display Center and
Macrotechnology Works. Additionally, Tom currently serves on the Board of
Directors for Project InVision International and is a trusted advisor
to numerous other public and private companies in the displays,
semiconductor and software industries.
Tom began
his career as a hardware and firmware designer for microprocessor systems
and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York
at Stony Brook.
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