Avram Miller is a technologist, scientist and venture pioneer. As Intel's Corporate Vice President of Business Development, he co-founded Intel Capital and led Intel's drive to bring broadband internet into homes. He lives in Lecce, Italy, where he is the first Fellow of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), and writes and composes music.

Avram Miller was born in San Francisco in 1945. He left home young, went to sea as a merchant seaman, and found his way into computers in the 1960s, in a brain-wave lab at UCSF. He spent a decade in medical computing in San Francisco, Rotterdam and Israel, then worked at Digital Equipment Corporation and Franklin Computer before joining Intel in 1984. As Corporate Vice President of Business Development, he co-founded Intel Capital with Les Vadász and led Intel's effort to create residential broadband, persuading the cable industry that it was in the communications business.

After Intel he advised technology companies worldwide, helped start Posit Science (maker of BrainHQ), and spent more than a decade in longevity science. Today he is the first Fellow of IIT and lives in Lecce. He is the author of The Flight of a Wild Duck (2021) and has written the blog Two Thirds Done since 2006. He is also a composer and pianist.

Avram Miller has spent his life a step ahead of the technology around him. Born in San Francisco in 1945, he broke away from a difficult childhood, went to sea as a merchant seaman, and was part of the 1960s San Francisco counterculture before computers claimed him. Self-taught, he spent a decade in medical computing: building biofeedback equipment in Joe Kamiya’s brain-wave lab at UCSF, leading the computer department of the Thoraxcenter in Rotterdam while still in his twenties, and creating a medical computer systems business for Mennen-Greatbatch in Israel. He held associate professorships without ever attending university. In 1979 he turned to computer design, at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he led its Professional personal computer, and then as president of Franklin Computer.

In 1984 he joined Intel, where he spent fifteen years and became Corporate Vice President of Business Development. With Les Vadász, and with the support of Andy Grove, he created the group that became Intel Capital. It became one of the largest and most successful corporate venture investors in the world. He also led Intel's push to create residential broadband, convincing the cable industry to see itself as a communications and technology business, which laid the groundwork for the cable modem.

After Intel he founded The Avram Miller Company and advised technology companies around the world. He helped start Posit Science, the brain-plasticity company behind BrainHQ, and spent more than ten years in longevity science, including as a senior advisor to Cleveland Clinic's research institute.

He now lives in Lecce, in Puglia, as the first Fellow of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, helping researchers turn their work into companies. He co-invests in Elevo, a venture studio that builds companies from research institutions, and advises Sheba Medical Center in Israel, H-FARM and CMCC. He is working to bring entrepreneurs from abroad to start companies in southern Italy.

He is the author of the memoir The Flight of a Wild Duck: An Improbable Journey Through Life and Technology (2021), writes the blog and Substack Two Thirds Done, and is a composer and pianist.