Jeff Miller retired as senior counsel of Perkins Coie’s licensing and technology group in 2014. He has since joined the Janicki family of companies in Skagit County, Washington as its Business Manager and General Counsel to two of them. His prior career included two successful IPOs, numerous private financings, many significant technology licensing transactions, and management of the FDA approval for an antibody-based cancer-imaging product. Jeff was also a partner in a Seattle patent law firm. Before joining Perkins Coie as senior counsel in 2008, Jeff served as CEO of NeuroTherapeutics, an early-stage company developing novel drugs to treat neurological diseases. Prior to that assignment, he was senior vice president of aQuantive, an Internet advertising company acquired by Microsoft. He earned a doctorate in biophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a JD from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.