| Website | google.org |
| @gregorymiller | |
| Birthplace | Palm Springs, CA |
| University of Virginia Law School, J.D. | 1986 |
| Colgate University, B.A. | 1983 |
| Economics and Philosophy |
Gregory Miller is Director, Philanthropic Affairs for Google.org, overseeing Google’s philanthropic investments, grants and legal issues as a hybrid philanthropy; and Secretary, Treasurer and general counsel of the Google Foundation. Greg joined Google.org shortly after Dr. Larry Brilliant joined as Executive Director. From 2006 until 2009, as Google.org’s Managing Director, Investments and Legal, Greg’s responsibilities encompassed both philanthropic investments and grants across all program initiatives. As a member of the senior leadership team, he helped to develop the program initiatives and the advocacy plans, scope the program positions and hire the team. In the three years from 2006 until Dr. Brilliant’s departure in March 2009, DotOrg grew to 42 persons, awarded approximately $100 million with 120 grants, led 8 philanthropic investments, and was recognized in widespread news articles, blogs and conferences recognizing its data-driven, outcome-based approaches.
Greg began with a corporate finance career at Brown & Wood law firm in New York City, later joining Latham & Watkins in San Francisco working with companies and leading investment banks structuring financing transactions. In 2001 Greg joined Gunderson Dettmer LLP in Menlo Park, CA, as a partner advising emerging growth and technology companies and leading venture capital firms. Later he helped found and launch Cometa Networks, an early wi-fi company that secured top-tier venture and strategic funding, before ultimately winding down operations. He has led over 100 significant corporate transactions, including more than 25 IPOs and public offerings exceeding $3.8 billion, over 30 debt financing transactions exceeding $13.5 billion, and acquisitions and reorganizations in over a dozen transactions collectively exceeding $2.5 billion. Greg has a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Colgate University, and a JD from the University of Virginia.
Greg is a board member of the American Himalayan Foundation.
On the personal side, Greg plays the mandolin, he enjoys surfing, sea and whitewater kayaking, and is a marathoner and a mountaineer – over the last two decades has been leader or a member of numerous self-guided expeditions in the Himalayas, Alaska and South America ranging from tracking snow leopards in the Kingdom of Mustang to climbing from Tibet to nearly 8000m on the icy north side of Mt Everest without supplemental oxygen.
