"Solazyme’s technology and team represent an important opportunity with the potential to penetrate large and growing markets with highly effective and safe products. Algae present the same untapped, diverse and exciting opportunities that the large pharmaceutical companies found in the rainforests 30 years ago." - Dan Miller




Daniel H. Miller

Director

Dan Miller is Managing Director of the Roda Group (www.rodagroup.com) and was previously the president of Ask Jeeves, Inc., a former Roda Group affiliate company.

At the end of 1994, Mr. Miller retired from his position as Executive Vice President of TCSI Corporation, a company he co-founded with his Roda Group partner, Roger Strauch. Mr. Miller retired from the Board of Directors of TCSI in June of 1997. TCSI (now owned by Rocket Software) is a leading provider of integrated software products and services for the global telecommunications industry.

Prior to TCSI, Mr. Miller was a systems engineer at Hughes Aircraft's Space and Communications Group where he was responsible for designing communications payloads for commercial communications satellites.

Mr. Miller received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, with distinction, from Cornell University and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He holds three patents in the areas of compression technology and wireless communications systems.

Mr. Miller is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chabot Space & Science Center and is also a member of Cornell University's School of Electrical Engineering Advisory Board.