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Robert Stevens "Steve" Miller 66 became executive chairman on January 1 2007. He was previously chairman and chief executive officer of Delphi Corporation. He also serves as chair of the Delphi Strategy Board the company's top policy-making group and Delphi's Board of Directors.
Prior to joining Delphi Miller was the non-executive chairman of Federal-Mogul and also serves as a director of two other diverse public companies: Symantec and United Airlines. He previously served on the board of Reynolds American and Waste Management Inc. Currently he serves as a board member of the Economic Alliance of Michigan.
Miller began his career in 1968 at Ford Motor Company and worked for 11 years in a variety of assignments in the United States Mexico Australia and Venezuela. In 1979 he joined Chrysler Corporation at the request of then-chairman Lee Iacocca and was the architect of the Loan Guarantee Act that included negotiations with 400 lenders and the U.S. government to secure the bailout of the troubled automaker. He remained at Chrysler for more than a decade eventually serving as chief financial officer and vice chairman responsible for all staff activities international automotive operations and non-automotive operations such as Gulfstream Aerospace.
Miller left Chrysler in 1992 and became a partner in an investment banking firm advising Olympia & York a privately held real estate firm as it restructured more than $20 billion in debt. In 1993 he embarked on a career as a professional corporate director. In the past decade he has returned to the private sector nine times to serve as a full-time executive in order to guide the recovery of several companies. These included:
1995: Chairman Morrison Knudsen an engineering and construction firm.
1996: Acting CEO Federal-Mogul an automotive parts maker.
1997: Chairman and CEO Waste Management an environmental services firm.
1999: CEO Waste Management.
1999: President Reliance Group Holdings a property and casualty company.
2000: Office of the CEO Aetna an insurance services firm.
2000: Interim CEO Federal-Mogul.
2001: Chairman and CEO Bethlehem Steel.
2003: Non-executive Chairman Federal-Mogul.
Miller is a native of Portland Ore. where his family owned a timber and lumber business. He earned a degree in economics from Stanford University in 1963 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1966. In 1968 he received an MBA degree in finance from Stanford Business School. | 