Born in Boston, MA, Mr. Miller graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in economics and did his postgraduate work in business and engineering at Northeastern University, Boston College and MIT. He held line and staff positions at Raytheon Company before being promoted to the corporate staff. Mr. Miller was executive vice president of a large New England food processing company, and then was recruited to be president and CEO of Cellu Products Company, which he later purchased. The company, based in North Carolina, manufactured specialty papers, polyolefin films and foams for packaging products and raw materials for converters of disposable hospital, surgical and health care products. Mr. Miller invented and patented several of the products of the company, which had manufacturing plants in NC, CT, PA, IL, MS and Germany. He has been a board member of the Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE), the Laird Group (LSE), and several privately held companies. He has also served on the boards of such professional and industry organizations as the Institute of Packaging Professionals and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He has been a trustee of Lenoir-Rhyne College in North Carolina; is a life trustee of the Kravis Center; a member of the Palm Beach Crime Watch board and executive committee; and the former president of the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County. Mr. Miller and his wife, Harriet, have lived in Palm Beach for 30 years. They have three married children and seven grandchildren.