David S. Miller, Ph.D. is a founder and Executive Managing Director of CEVG. He is on the board of directors or advisory board of several clean energy companies, and was a volunteer mentor to others at MIT's Venture Mentoring Service. He is also a research affiliate at MIT's Sloan School of Management. An engineer by training, he brings 15 years of technology startup management experience and 10 years of angel investing experience.

David is a New England chapter leader of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a national community of business people who believe in protecting the environment while building economic prosperity (www.e2.org). David co-founded EPrime, which is a forum for clean energy entrepreneurs to network and support each other's enterprises. He is a founding member of the MIT Enterprise Forum's Energy Special Interest Group where he currently manages the mentor program for the IGNITE Clean Energy Business Plan Competition. David was a board member of New England Energy and Environmental Funders, which educated investors interested in energy and environmental companies, and was an advisory board member of the New England Clean Energy Council.

Previously, David founded several companies, including Quantum Telecom Solutions which developed software for programmable switching equipment. He grew the company to profitability, with over 100% annual growth over a four-year period and then negotiated VC financing and sold the company to a division of Lucent Technologies. At Lucent, he served as Director in the New Ventures Group where he managed and evaluated a diverse set of early stage investments.

David was awarded a patent for co-developing a "one number" telecom service, and taught at Rutgers University in the Electrical Engineering Department. He received his BS and MS in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT, and completed his doctorate at MIT's Lab for Energy and the Environment where he studied the utilization of distributed generation and energy efficiency measures. His dissertation examined the impact of a variety of management and investment strategies and public policy initiatives on the success of new clean energy ventures. As a research affiliate at MIT's Sloan School of Management, he supervises the continuation of this work. David lives in Brookline, MA with his wife and two children.


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