User:Mhodierne/Paul Miller

Paul Miller was born on 6 September 1957 and is a business and social entrepreneur. He is Founder and Chief Executive of the Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF), a members-only intranet benchmarking group of large organisations. After completing a law degree at the University of Birmingham, in 1979 Paul worked as a journalist on the Newcastle Evening Chronicle in England. Paul became freelance in 1986 writing management articles for the Independent newspaper. He also worked as a speechwriter. In 1990 he launched WAVE magazine, covering new thinking in the arts, business and technology. In 1992, he set up The Empowerment Group (TEG), a consultancy helping large organisations communicate change. He wriote the knowledge-management handbook Mobilising the Power of What You Know (Random House, 1998). Paul co-founded the Ideas Cafe, a regular forum in London for the discussion of new ideas in society, economics, the arts and business. It ran for two years from 1993. He established the Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF) in 2002. IBF had 70 members as at december 2008, including the BBC, BP, BT, Citi, Deloitte, the Department for Work and Pensions, Deutsche Telekom, ExxonMobil, Kellogg’s, Nokia, Pfizer and Unilever In 2008, IBF staged IBF 24, with 700-plus participants from 16 countries. Later in the year IBF launched Intranets Live, an intranet media channel, delivered via Microsoft Live Meeting. Paul is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and a former IABC UK board member. He lives in London with his wife and two teenage daughters.