About
Scott N. Miller is an Analyst for Gigaom Research and the CEO and Co-Founder of Dragon Innovation. Scott has extensive experience in all aspects of Far East manufacturing development, engineering, production, system quality assurance, operations, contract negotiations, costing and sourcing, hiring and team building.
Prior to founding Dragon Innovation, Scott spent ten years at iRobot. As the Vice President of Asia Pacific, Scott was based in Hong Kong and China and responsible for founding, scaling and leading the Hong Kong, China and India teams as integrated parts of iRobot’s global product development engine. Products include the Roomba and Scooba Robots (over 3,000,000 units sold worldwide), as well as Looj and ConnectR. Upon his return to the States, Scott served as iRobot’s Vice President of New Product Development leading a 60-person global product development team that was responsible for developing and delivering the next generation products for the Home Robots Division.
Other notable projects spanning Scott’s twenty-year career include multiple toys for Hasbro (robotic dinosaurs and the robotic baby doll My Real Baby, and a full-sized robotic Triceratops dinosaur powered by a Corvette engine for Disney Theme Parks. In addition to running Dragon Innovation, Scott serves as an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Olin College and teaches the Mechanical Design and Design for Manufacture courses.
Scott is an avid sailor and captains a J/80 sailboat during racing season. He has sailed from Boston to Portugal through two hurricanes and also from Boston through the Panama Canal to Tahiti. Scott holds a Bachelor degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Science from MIT.