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Tom Miller, Founder

Experienced & Visionary Med-Tech CEO
tmiller@greybirdventures.com

Tom Miller is a global healthcare industry leader and an experienced and visionary CEO.  He graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and then received a Masters degree in Medical Physics from the Harvard University/MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program.  Tom initially pursued an academic career, working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (now the Paul Scherer Institute), Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Tom then joined Siemens Medical Systems where, after 9 years, he became the first non-German CEO of a German factory and business unit. He left Siemens after 15 years to become CEO of the global medical operations of Carl Zeiss. After completing a successful turnaround, he joined Analogic Corporation as CEO. After three years and a doubling of the stock price, Tom left to help establish and become CEO of LightLab Imaging, a leader in the field of cardiovascular optical coherence tomography. Subsequently, after a profitable sale of LightLab to a Japanese company, Tom re-joined Siemens, where he became a member of the operating board and CEO of the Customer Solutions Division of Siemens Healthcare, responsible for 26,000 employees in over 130 countries.

Tom is a frequent speaker on healthcare technology and business at such venues as the National Press Club, the National Library of Medicine, the National Institute of Health, and the American Hospital Association. He was selected by the diagnostic imaging industry to provide Congressional testimony to the House Health Sub-Committee as well as the European Parliament on healthcare technology policy.  Internationally, Tom has given keynote speeches at the Arab Health meeting in Dubai, the World Health Organization in Bejing, the Innovation for Health Conference in Amsterdam, the TiE Leapfrog Conference in Bangalore, the World Executive Healthcare Forum in Montreal, and the NHS Economic Research Council in London.  Tom remains active with students and young entrepreneurs as an organizing committee member and judge for the AIM-HI Women’s Venture Competition and through numerous lectures at business schools in the USA and Germany.  His commencement address at the India Institute of Technology in Roorkee, the oldest technical institute in Asia, highlights this commitment.

Tom Serves on the Board of Hummingbird Diagnostics, Genetika+, JF Healthcare, and Angstrom Bio, and as Chair of the Board of Ceres Nanosciences, Atlas 5D and Platomics.