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Scott Miller
Chairman, CEO
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Scott Miller is Chairman of Zyman Group, the marketing and strategic communications firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduating from Washington & Lee University in 1967, Mr. Miller began a career in advertising and political consulting. He was Creative Director of McCann-Erickson in New York, where he worked for such clients as Coca-Cola, Miller Brewing and Exxon. At McCann-Erickson, Mr. Miller won every major award for creative excellence in the advertising industry, including many Clio Awards and a Lion d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1979 he founded Sawyer/Miller Group with David Sawyer. This strategic consulting group developed communications strategy for many political campaigns, corporations and institutions. Among Sawyer/Miller Group’s clients: Corazon Aquino, Vaclav Havel, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Miller Brewing, Boris Yeltsin, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Kim Dae Jung, Goldman-Sachs, Apple Computer Virgilio Barco, USA for Africa/Hands Across America, Lech Walesa and The Better World Foundation. Sawyer/Miller also advised over 40 U.S. candidates for governor or Senator and several Presidential campaigns.
In 1988, Sawyer/Miller Group was acquired by True North (now Interpublic Group) and Mr. Miller founded Core Strategy Group with Sergio Zyman. At Core, he worked on developing communications, marketing and branding strategies for clients like McDonalds, Verizon, CitiGroup, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Google, News Corp., The Tribune Company, Highfields Capital, Rio Tinto, Cox Newspapers, Women & Co., The Newspaper Association of America, Knight-Ridder, The Southern Company, The Home Depot and The Walt Disney Company. He has also helped develop strategy for the successful political campaigns of Kim Dae Jung and Vicente Fox. In the 2004 U.S. election, Mr. Miller worked as a strategist for the Bush-Cheney campaign and the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee.
Mr. Miller provides commentary on political and corporate communications on the major television networks, often lectures on communications, branding and insurgent strategies. He wrote Building Brandwidth with Sergio Zyman and The Underdog Advantage with David Morey for McGraw-Hill. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was included on several Who’s Who lists over the years, before realizing the listing is basically a marketing scam. Nevertheless, to his great embarrassment, he bought one faux marble plaque.
Scott lives in Atlanta, Georgia and Carmel, California with his wife Denise and sons Tyler and Brett. |
