Steven N. Miller is a partner of Origin Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm he co-founded in Chicago in 1999. Steve and his wife Diane are active philanthropists, accomplishing charitable impact via their family's REAM Foundation. Recently, Diane and Steve have refocused their giving primarily to support research into a medical condition called misophonia. Steve is president of the board of Victory Gardens Theater and vice chair of the Better Government Association. He is a board member of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. Steve received a B.S. degree in Business Administration/Marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987, where he now chairs the Dean's Business Council and serves as a trustee of the Hillel Foundation. He and Diane also provide the funding for the Steven N. Miller Entrepreneurial Scholarships, the Diane N. & Steven N. Miller Centennial Chair in Business, and the Origin Ventures Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois.