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Robert Stevens "Steve" Miller

Executive Chairman, Delphi Corporation

Robert Stevens "Steve" Miller, 66, became executive chairman on January 1, 2007. He was previously chairman and chief executive officer of Delphi Corporation. He also serves as chair of the Delphi Strategy Board, the company's top policy-making group, and Delphi's Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Delphi, Miller was the non-executive chairman of Federal-Mogul, and also serves as a director of two other diverse public companies: Symantec and United Airlines. He previously served on the board of Reynolds American and Waste Management, Inc. Currently, he serves as a board member of the Economic Alliance of Michigan.

Miller began his career in 1968 at Ford Motor Company, and worked for 11 years in a variety of assignments in the United States, Mexico, Australia and Venezuela. In 1979, he joined Chrysler Corporation at the request of then-chairman Lee Iacocca and was the architect of the Loan Guarantee Act that included negotiations with 400 lenders and the U.S. government to secure the bailout of the troubled automaker. He remained at Chrysler for more than a decade, eventually serving as chief financial officer and vice chairman responsible for all staff activities, international automotive operations, and non-automotive operations such as Gulfstream Aerospace.

Miller left Chrysler in 1992 and became a partner in an investment banking firm, advising Olympia & York, a privately held real estate firm, as it restructured more than $20 billion in debt. In 1993, he embarked on a career as a professional corporate director. In the past decade, he has returned to the private sector nine times to serve as a full-time executive in order to guide the recovery of several companies. These included:

1995: Chairman, Morrison Knudsen, an engineering and construction firm.
1996: Acting CEO, Federal-Mogul, an automotive parts maker.
1997: Chairman and CEO, Waste Management, an environmental services firm.
1999: CEO, Waste Management.
1999: President, Reliance Group Holdings, a property and casualty company.
2000: Office of the CEO, Aetna, an insurance services firm.
2000: Interim CEO, Federal-Mogul.
2001: Chairman and CEO, Bethlehem Steel.
2003: Non-executive Chairman, Federal-Mogul.

Miller is a native of Portland, Ore., where his family owned a timber and lumber business. He earned a degree in economics from Stanford University in 1963, and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1966. In 1968, he received an MBA degree in finance from Stanford Business School.