Tom Miller, MBA., is an Adjunct Professor at both the Mihaylo School of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton and Concordia University, Irvine. He is also the founding principal of his own firm, where he has a significant record of accomplishment helping clients tell compelling stories that attract money and people to accelerate their business success. His key competencies include:

• Communicating a Story in Words, Numbers, and Images
• Organizational Design & Infrastructure Development
• Financial Modeling, Forecasting, and Identification of Funding Sources
• Identification and Implementation of Key Performance Indicators
• Selection and Configuration of Information Systems
• Team Selection and Development
• Leadership Development

Tom currently teaches upper division courses in Entrepreneurial Operations, Accounting & Finance for Entrepreneurs, New Venture Funding and graduate courses in Business Strategy & Planning and New Venture Creation.

Besides his graded classes, he has over 30 years of teaching and training adult scout leaders and the boating public, in formats ranging from short talks to week-long programs, and covering topics such as skills development, program presentation, and leadership development. He is also a speaker at numerous local and regional groups on various topics related to Entrepreneurship.

Mr. Miller has more than 30 years’ experience across a broad range of industries, including medical devices manufacturing, aircraft component repair, heavy construction, commercial commissary, fabless semiconductor manufacturing, litigation support, and staffing.

Prior to consulting, Tom was Vice President of Planning and Development at Select University Technologies (SUTI), a firm focused on the commercialization of university-developed technologies. Before SUTI, he had relocated from Chicago to California to take a position as Vice President of Operations at Advanced Electronic Packaging, a manufacturer of custom electronics. He began his career with R. R. Donnelley in Chicago, where he held several staff positions and headed an engineering effort that resulted in several U.S. Patents.

Mr. Miller has an MBA with a specialization in Finance from the Booth School at the University of Chicago, as well as both a BS in Information and Computer Science and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Irvine. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Mr. Miller has been on the organizing committee, a panel moderator, and a panelist at several of the Harvard–Marshall Business Growth Conferences. He served for 20 years on the executive committee of Tech Cost Venture Network and has been a member of the Turnaround Management Association.