I am President & CEO of Ken Miller Capital, LLC, a closely held merchant banking firm which invests in early-stage companies. I’ve previously served as Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and Credit Suisse First Boston. I have served as a member of the Board of Directors of Viacom, Inc., Intelsat Corp, Kinder Care Learning Centers, CNA Surety, and Loews. Currently, I serve on the board of the National Committee on US-China Relations and PEN America, and am an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ulysses Press (September 2025)
NEW RELEASE
Discover the novel called a “brilliant read, funny and poignant, with an insider’s knowledge of Wall Street” that plunges readers into the financial sector’s ruthless heart, where fortune, ambition, and betrayal collide in the rise and devastating fall of a financial titan. (New York Times bestselling author Elliott Ackerman)
Told from the perspectives of those in and around the pathways of money and power, High Finance is a debut novel that takes us inside one of the most volatile periods in Wall Street’s history through the lens of Jed Czincosca, who came to Wall Street from Chicago in 1977 to get rich and rise to the pinnacle of American success.
He did what it takes to make it to the top, letting nothing hold him back. While orchestrating multibillion-dollar deals and becoming spectacularly wealthy, Jed binges on pot and alcohol, trades on inside information, cheats on his wife, and becomes one of Wall Street’s key players. At the dawn of the new century, with a monomaniacal obsession Jed borrows to buy as many shares of Lehman Brothers as he can get his hands on, only to be wiped out on that fateful September day when Lehman was fed to the wolves. Forced from his four-bedroom duplex on Park Avenue to a cheap rental in the working-class town of Patchogue, is redemption and resurrection for Jed even possible?
I’ve been involved in civil rights with an emphasis on racial justice since the 1960’s. The American struggle to achieve and preserve a multi-racial democracy continues to be a major focus for me. This video is part of the Thinking Forward Lecture Series presented annually by the Bridgehampton Childcare and Recreation Center which I have been a part of for the last 7 years and counting.
I arrived in New York City to work on Wall Street just as mergers were taking off due to hostile tender offers. Fixed commissions had ended and the investment banks were looking for new sources of cash, so I had the wind at my back when I began to advise companies on corporate combinations.
