Key Achievements and Contributions

Technology and Innovation

  • Led Intel's initiative to create and expand residential broadband, laying a critical foundation for today's internet

  • Provided key specifications to CableLabs that became the DOCSIS standard

  • Conceived of @Home Network, convincing Kleiner Perkins to work with the cable industry to create it

  • Developed one of the first online intensive care monitoring systems at The Thorax Center

  • Created a Catheterization Laboratory System and the first system to support echocardiograms

Venture Capital and Business Development

  • Co-founded Intel Capital with Les Vadász, creating what became the most successful corporate venture group in the technology industry

  • Managed a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio at Intel with numerous successful investments

  • Ranked number eight on the Forbes Midas List of top 100 tech investors in 2003

  • Served as Intel's Corporate Vice President of Business Development (1984-1999)

  • Founded The Avram Miller Company, providing strategy and business development services to technology companies internationally

Nonprofit Work

  • Founding Chair of Plugged In, a computer literacy program for underserved youth (1992-1999)

  • Senior Advisor to Equal Access (1999-2012)

  • Trustee of The California Institute of the Arts (1994-2000)

Notable Investments

Broadcast.com
Verisign
Broadcom
LAUNCH Media
Geocities
CNET
Covad
CMGI
PCCW