Jo Anne Miller, MBA ’87
Managing Partner, Brown Dog Partners
Ms. Miller has more than 29 years of telecommunications and computer industry experience, including senior executive, engineering management, and research roles at JetCell, an indoor wireless/VoIP company (acquired by Cisco Systems), AirNet Communications, a wireless infrastructure company, Tellabs, and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
In 2008, Ms. Miller started a west coast branch of Golden Seeds, a nation-wide angel network that invests in women-backed businesses across all sectors. In addition to her role with Golden Seeds, she also invests with SandHill Angels in the Bay Area and is a co-founder of SLO Seed Ventures, a small angel group in San Luis Obispo.
In 2011, Ms. Miller formed Brown Dog Partners, LLC to commercialize research in the growing Agricultural Technology space.
Ms. Miller has a BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of Chicago..