Larry Miller

As Chairman of the Life Science Deal Flow Committee, Larry leverages his strong network and background to actively seek out promising deals and guide BlueTree’s deal screening process for all life science companies.  In addition to his work at BlueTree, Larry serves as an Executive in Residence at Innovation Works.

As an Executive in Residence, Larry Miller works with the management teams of early stage life science or medical device start-up technology companies. The goal is to assist the entrepreneurial community to identify and address their critical business issues including intellectual property creation and protection, product development, marketing, sales, fundraising, management recruitment and growth planning.   For portfolio companies, Larry provides mentoring and network access, and may serve as an observer on the Board of Directors. 

Larry has broad experience in medical device and capital equipment marketing, sales service and equipment finance including 16 years of P&L and balance sheet management of divisions as large as $600M in sales to as small as a skunk works product development team designing novel permanent magnet based MRI systems. 

Prior to joining Innovation Works, Larry was President and CEO of Biomec, a technology accelerator and investment company which raised over $20M in SBIR grants, and provided business development consulting for a number of radiology product manufacturers and distributors.  At Picker International and Philips Medical systems, Larry was president of the Healthcare Products group, a $600M distributor of radiology supplies, managed the Asia/ Pacific region for sales and service of the diagnostic imaging product portfolio, and was president of the Picker Financial Group, a JV, captive leasing company. Other assignments include marketing and sales of CT and MRI products for Picker and General Electric Medical Systems.