Aled Miles

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Born in the United Kingdom, Aled is a California-based CEO, board member, and dual citizen of the United Kingdom & the United States. He is the CEO of Formstack and the Welsh Government Envoy to the United States. As the Welsh Government Envoy to the United States since 2020, Aled assists in raising the profile of his home country, Wales, for inward investment, export, and trade in general.  

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As a three-time CEO, Aled has completed two strategic exits and, most recently, a majority stake sale to one of the world’s largest private equity firms. He has served as a non-executive director on public & private boards and attained a 4th liquidity event as an executive chairman. He was employed for 20 years of his career at a $26BN+ (market cap) public company, where in his final three years, he served on the executive committee with P&L responsibility for a $2.2BN business and a directorate of over 2,000 employees. He’s lived on 3 continents, traded in all major geographic markets, and maintains an extensive commercial & political global network.

 

He previously was also the Chairman of “IoTium”, a SaaS provider for the secure Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with offices in the U.S., India, Japan, and Australia. Backed by John Chambers (Chairman Emeritus, Cisco), Honeywell & GE Ventures, IoTium focuses on the massive increase in small sensors collectively capable of huge computational power.

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He served on the board of leading Australian cybersecurity company "Sapien", alongside Retired Lt. General James Clapper AO, former Director of National Intelligence to President Obama & chaired by The Hon Stephen Smith, former Australian Foreign Affairs, Defense & Trade Minister. Since December 2020, he serves on the board of publicly traded company Whispir (WSP: ASX) chaired by highly regarded industry veterans Brendan Fleiter and CEO Jeromy Wells.

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As of 2024, Miles is in his 6th and final year as a director/board member of The National Conservatoire of Wales under the presidency of H.R.H King Charles III.

 

He is one of the “Innovators-in-Residence" at the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School and is also a founding board member of Wildstar.tv, which was founded by the executive producers and directors of the award-winning BBC documentary Planet Earth.

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In 2016 Miles joined TeleSign Corporation as Chief Executive Officer.  In 2018, he secured the $300m acquisition of TeleSign by BICS (a Proximus, Swisscom, MTN joint venture). 

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From 2009 to 2015, he served on the executive committee of Symantec Corporation reporting to the CEO. He held responsibility for the global ‘Norton’ business unit navigating the $2 billion, 2,500-person consumer division. In 2014/15, Miles also rescued the Latin America geography, returning it to double-digit growth within 12 months.

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In 2007, he relocated from the U.K. to the U.S. when he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Cineflex Camera Systems LLC in Los Angeles. A global gyro-stabilized camera manufacturer for film and television, Cineflex provided the aerial cinematography in the landmark BBC series Planet Earth and Frozen Planet (which won a technical Emmy). 

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