What I Do
Peter Miller works in multiple areas involving entrepreneurship, investing, and building effective management teams. His expertise includes business plans and fund-raising, mentoring entrepreneurs, sales force organization and compensation, building service and product companies, operations, and strategic approaches to markets.
Mr. Miller has been Co-Director of the MIT Venture Mentoring Service since 2002. He was a director of the Global MIT Enterprise Forum and was its chairman of the board for four years.
He has a strong record of helping to build start-up companies from their early days to liquidity, including Abt Associates, now a company with revenues of over $500 million, where he was the third employee while in graduate school and later COO. Peter has been board member, principal advisor and/or an officer at three IT companies he helped build, all of which were sold to public firms. He was a commercial advisory board member for an industrial biotech company which had a NASDAQ IPO in 2006. He is a member of the angel group Boston Harbor Angels.
Peter Miller is COO of Genomic Healthcare Strategies, a boutique consulting firm which provides strategic inputs to healthcare companies on how ongoing changes in science affect their markets, acquisition strategy, and acquisition process. He has been principal author of many articles and editorials in peer-reviewed journals. He speaks frequently at molecular medicine and genomics conferences on business models, trends, and strategy.
In the 1980’s he was a member of the board of directors of the Boston Computer Society, the world’s leading computer user organization at the time, where he wrote a regular column, “Minding Your Business” for their magazine, with a circulation of 30,000.
Specialties: Angel investing; Emerging businesses; Preparing for funding; De-risking companies for acquisition; Entrepreneurial management; High technology companies; Innovation; Marketing strategy; Management of technology; New ventures; Private equity; Research and development; Start-ups; Venture capital.
He believes that the best way to build success in entrepreneurship, either in start-ups or for new initiatives in large companies is to have experienced entrepreneurs working with the team members. He has worked with groups from large communications firms, teams from large pharma and other Fortune 500 firms, as well as young companies.
Peter did both his undergraduate (chemical engineering, computer science, management) and graduate work (Sloan School of management) at MIT.