Jonathan F. Miller (born 1957) was CEO of Digital Media at

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until 2012 and was the

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and

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from 2002 to 2006.

Early life and education

Miller is the son of Jean Baker Miller and S. M. Miller.New York Times: "Jean Baker Miller, 78, Psychiatrist, Is Dead" By Jeremy Pearce
August 8, 2006 His father was an emeritus professor of sociology at Boston University; his mother was a psychiatrist and author. He has one brother, Dr. Edward D. Miller.

Career

From 1987 to 1993, Miller was vice president of programming and NBA Entertainment for the National Basketball Association. From 1993 to 1997, he was managing director of

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, (a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks). In 1997 he joined USA Networks as manager of its local television stations. From 2000 to 2002, Miller ran the Internet operations of Barry Diller's USA Networks, (now IACI and Expedia). In August 2002, when he was brought into AOL by

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, he was relatively unknown. Miller pursued a strategy of cutting costs and focusing on improving ad revenues over AOL's then-dominant subscription business. In 2004, Miller oversaw the $435 million acquisition of

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In 2006, he presided over layoffs of 5,000 people at AOL. He bought

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, and brought Jason Calacanis to AOL, and later invested in

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. He considered buying Facebook and YouTube. In November 2006, he was replaced by Randy Falco. Miller led the company's change from a subscription-based model to an advertising-supported model. After his departure from AOL, Time Warner invoked a non-compete clause to prevent him serving on the Yahoo board of directors. In 2008, he was looking for funding for a takeover of Yahoo, but was unsuccessful. In March 2009 Miller joined

as Chief Digital Officer to "oversee the broad strategic digital initiatives." Miller was CEO of Digital Media at

, including Fox Interactive Media and

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, until his departure in August 2012. In February 2018, he partnered with Private equity firm TPG Capital, to acquire Fandom. Miller was named Co-chairman of Wikia, Inc., alongside Jimmy Wales, and TPG Capital director Andrew Doyle assumed the role of interim CEO. They acquired TV Guide, and Metacritic. He was named CEO of Integrated Media Co., a subsidiary of TPG Capital.

Directorships

As of 2009, Miller was on the board of directors of Clickable, Idearc Media, Mahalo,

Kosmix Walmart Labs (formerly named Kosmix and @WalmartLabs) became part of Walmart Global Tech, the technology and business services organization within Walmart. Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman founded Kosmix in 2005. In April 2011, Walmart acqu ...

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and Hanley Wood, LLC. He was an advisor to

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. In 2010, he was on the board of Ticketmaster, and

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. In 2012, he served on the boards of TripAdvisor and Shutterstock.

Awards

Miller received the first

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in 2006, for his contributions to the field of interactive television at the International Interactive Emmy Awards at Mip TV in Cannes.

Personal life

Miller is married to Myriam Barenbaum. They have a son, Jake.Tarrytown Sun: "Check Mate: SH Teen Wins Big - High school junior Jake Miller is a nationally ranked chess player
by Sarah Studley] May 24, 2010

References

External links

A Conversation with AOL CEO Jonathan Miller
Web 2.0 Conference 2005 {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Jonathan 1957 births AOL people Living people Harvard University alumni Directors of Yahoo! American financial company founders American people of Jewish descent American corporate directors Chief digital officers