Serial entrepreneur Todd Miller is CEO and Founder of gwabbit, maker of the award-winning series of gwabbit email contact capture and management products. Declared a "Head-slappingly simple solution to a grating problem" by BusinessWeek, gwabbit has received numerous accolades, including "Top business app" from Inc Magazine, as well as two DEMOgod awards -- the highest honor bestowed by the nation's premier technology conference for launching startup companies.
Prior to gwabbit, Miller was president and founder of WebFeat, maker of the highly successful WebFeat federated search engine (sold to ProQuest in 2008), as well as President of Knight Ridder SourceOne. Early in his career, Miller was responsible for the launch and rapid growth of the hugely successful InfoTrac search system at Ziff Communications' IAC subsidiary.
Miller holds four patents in the field of search technology and authentication and session management. He has received awards from the Gartner Group, Reed Publishing, The DEMO Conference, and others. Miller has been a featured speaker on IBM's eBusiness Tour and was featured in IBM's "Success Stories" campaign. In his abundant spare time, Miller is a competitive horseback rider. He resides in Carmel Valley, CA with his wife and their rescue dogs, horses, and other quadrupeds.
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