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Giles Miller

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Giles Miller grew up in a respectable suburban household with a successful, 125-year-old family business in manufacturing doing traditional lower-upper class activities like running, swimming, golf, croquet, polo, and falconry. At the same time that he was sunning himself at the country club in the 1980’s and 90’s, rap music was taking off. He didn’t know it at the time, but the hip hop artists and music to which he was listening would one day reveal their secrets to teach them valuable lessons about successfully leading a $140 million dollar family business, Phoenix Closures, the largest privately held bottle cap manufacturer in America. Giles’ long path in leadership started when he graduated from Boston College and entered the US Air Force. In his 15-year career he served in the wars on the air and the ground with four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and additional service in Italy, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, and Korea. Giles is a graduate of the US Air Force’s Squadron Officer School and Air Command and Staff College. He is fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian, and he has a M.B.A from Oklahoma City University. As Co-President of Phoenix Closures he presided over a 40% increase in topline revenue and a similar expansion in total production assisting in the site selection and construction of a new state of the art manufacturing facility. Giles is the family’s lone musician and is currently experimenting with bagpipes in hip-hop. He lives in Chicago. His place is totally baller, and he is actively trying to revive the show Cribs just to have his home featured . . .
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