Anthony W. Miller

Anthony Wilder "Tony" Miller was the United States deputy secretary of education, confirmed on July 24, 2009, to replace Raymond Simon, who resigned from office on January 20, 2009. Miller was a co-founder at The Vistria Group, LLC, and is the managing partner of private equity firm Excolere Equity Partners, which he founded in 2022.

Career Prior to joining the Department of Education, Miller had been an operating partner since 2007 with Silver Lake Partners, an investment firm. From 2003 to 2006, Miller was executive vice president of operations at LRN Corporation, a provider of governance and compliance software and legal research services.

In education, Miller worked with the Los Angeles Unified School District from 1997 to 2000, developing student achievement goals and strategies, budgets and operating plans, and designing metrics and processes for monitoring school performances.

In 2017, Anthony W. Miller became board chair of Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the for-profit college University of Phoenix. He and Vistria Group co-CEO Martin Nesbitt are board members of the University of Phoenix, and was involved in the $1.1 billion sale to take University of Phoenix private in 2016.

Education Miller holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University.

Personal life Miller and his wife, Carole, have one son and reside in Arlington, Virginia.