Dan Miller (BSEE ’78) is co-founder and Managing Director of The Roda Group, a Berkeley, California-based venture capital group. He is the former president of Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com), a past Roda Group affiliate company. Miller serves on the boards of a number of companies including Solazyme, a company that is growing biofuels using algae. Miller co-founded TCSI, a telecom technology company that went public in 1991. Before TCSI, he designed communications satellite payloads at Hughes Aircraft (now Boeing). Miller is a member of Al Gore’s Climate Project and is chair of the Foundation Board of the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, California.