| Website | cougarhill.com |
| Blog | gkm.posterous.com |
| @gregorymiller | |
| Birthplace | Palm Springs, CA |
| University of Virginia Law School, J.D. | 1986 |
| Colgate University, B.A. | 1983 |
| Economics and Philosophy |
Gregory Miller has a variety of evolving interests and accomplishments, and thinks of himself as a technologist driving social change.
Greg is currently a professor of sustainable management & entrepreneurship at Presidio Graduate School and in 2010 served as the School’s interim Dean of Faculty. He is an active TEDster, the curator of TEDxAlcatraz, and an angel investor in radically big ideas in data-driven social impact. He is also a partner of Virtual Law Partners LLP.
From 2006-2009 Gregory Miller was Managing Director at Google.org leading its philanthropic investments, grants and legal teams. He also was CFO/Treasurer, Secretary and General Counsel of the Google Foundation and chair of its investment committee. Alongside former Executive Director Dr. Larry Brilliant, Greg helped initiate and develop Google.org’s programs and funding initiatives addressing global economic development, global public health and climate change. During that 3+ year tenure, Google.org grew to 42 persons, awarded approximately $100 million with 120 grants, led 11 philanthropic investments, and was recognized in widespread news articles, blogs and conferences recognizing its data-driven, outcome-based approaches.
Greg led executive production of “The Final Inch”, a Google.org film documenting current polio eradication efforts in India and Pakistan that was nominated for a 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), and that won the 2009 Pare Lorentz Award from the International Documentary Association.
Prior to Google, Greg was a co-founder of Cometa Networks (one of the earliest 802.11b wifi deployment companies), and a partner with Gunderson Dettmer and Latham & Watkins law firms leading financial transactions and acquisitions with technology start-ups and Silicon Valley venture firms. He has closed over 100 significant transactions, including public equity offerings (>$3.8 billion), debt financings (>$13.5 billion) and acquisitions (>$2.5 billion).
Greg lives in San Francisco, has a JD from University of Virginia Law School and has a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Colgate. 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.
