Harrison B. Miller first joined Summit Partners in 1988. After then attending business school, he was part of the founding management team at Lightspan, an online education company that completed its initial public offering in 2000. At Amazon.com from 1998 to 2003, Harrison was the founding VP and GM of Platform Services, a $180 million unit of the company developing and deploying Amazon’s technology infrastructure as a managed service for major retailers and other customers. Harrison rejoined Summit in 2003.
Based in Summit’s Palo Alto office, Harrison today co-heads the firm’s venture capital activities in North America, Europe and Asia.
Harrison is currently a director of Wildfire Interactive. In addition, he is actively involved in the firm’s investments in Clearwater Analytics and Cloudmark.
His prior investments and directorships include AdvaCare (acquired by Medaphis Corporation), Autobase (acquired by Dominion Enterprises), Diagnostic Hybrids (acquired by Quidel Corporation), LiveOffice (acquired by Symantec Corporation), NetWitness Corporation (acquired by EMC Corporation), Postini (acquired by Google), Software Spectrum (NASDAQ: SSPE), The Mutual Fund Store (acquired by Warburg Pincus), and Tiny Prints (acquired by Shutterfly).
Harrison holds an AB in religion, cum laude, from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford Business School. He serves on the board of Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit financial institution for working families and the largest nonprofit microenterprise lender in California.