Jo Anne Heywood Miller

Board Member

Professional Achievements

Jo Anne Heywood Miller served as the President and CEO of Gluon Networks, Inc of Petaluma, CA from May 2001- February 2003. Gluon Networks designs and manufactures next-generation converged voice and data switching and management systems for local telephone service providers. Her accomplishments include raising $61.2 M in a C round of funding, re-structuring the development team and moving the product and company from early prototype to production, customer trials and first purchase orders.

Miller has over 26 years of telecommunications and computer industry experience in general management, software and hardware systems development, as well as software engineering and product management for wireless, wireline and data communications products. Since late 1994 Ms. Miller has been involved in the engineering and general management of start-up telecommunications infrastructure equipment manufacturers.

Before accepting her position at Gluon Networks, Miller was the founding vice president of engineering for JetCell, an indoor wireless/VoIP company, which became a division of Cisco Systems in May of 2000.

From 1994 until mid-1998 Miller was vice president for two wireless startup firms, TeleAccess Communications and AirNet Communications. While with these firms she was responsible for staffing the development teams, determining the development strategies and architectures and delivering the initial products.

From 1990 until October 1994, Miller was director of software development and advanced technology for Tellabs, where she turned around the Titan 5500 digital cross-connect product, drove the introduction of formal software development processes and in established a cohesive network management strategy.

Miller started her telecommunications career in 1976 at AT&T Bell Laboratories where she spent nearly 13 years developing advanced network-switching and computing solutions.

Education
Master of Business Administration, University of Chicago, 1987
Master of Science in Computer Science, University of Colorado, 1976
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1967

Awards
Science Woman of the Year, YWCA DuPage County, Illinois, 1988
Forum for Women Entrepreneurs -- Trailblazer Fundraising Award, 2002

Professional Affiliations
Forum for Women Entrepreneurs
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
International Engineering Consortium
American Association for University Women
Leadership California Year 2000 Annual Issues Program