Charles Miller is Chairman of Meridian Advisors. During a career in investment management, which spanned several decades from the1960's to the 1990's,
Mr. Miller was a highly successful portfolio manager, as well as an entrepreneur in
the investment management industry. He was an innovator and a pioneer in the era
of professional investment management of institutional assets, especially in the
area of corporate, public and jointly trusteed pension funds.

Miller built a large mutual fund company with a wide variety of product lines, including money market, equity and fixed income funds, domestic and foreign, with distribution
in all fifty states. In a later period, he developed an investment fund which invested in
special situation equities and in recent years he has managed family portfolios.

Miller has also been actively and successfully involved in education issues for two decades. As Chairman of the Education Policy Center of Texas, he took the lead in designing the first statewide public school accountability system, which later served as the model for No Child Left Behind federal legislation.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings appointed Miller Chairman of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education. The commission is charged with developing a comprehensive national strategy for postsecondary education that will meet the needs of America's diverse population and also address the economic and
workforce needs of the country's future. Miller leads the 19-member commission, comprised of university presidents, CEOs, policymakers, and researchers.

As Chairman of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System, Miller took the lead toward developing better higher education accountability systems, to be matched with deregulation and institutional autonomy. He also fostered strategies to generate significant increases in research funding, enrollment, patient care, private contributions and tuition revenues, while increasing financial aid.

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