Chiron Financial, LLC, a global middle market investment banking firm, announced that Michael Miller has joined as a managing director in Houston. He will lead corporate finance, M&A and restructuring transactions and help guide the firm's global growth as a member of the leadership team.

Miller brings over 30 years' experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, private investment, and operating experience acquired in key roles leading private-equity investment firms, corporate venture groups, and global banks. He has advised middle market companies, large business enterprises, and their stakeholders in complex venture capital, growth-equity, buyout, and financial restructuring transactions globally.

"We're pleased to welcome Michael aboard, and we look forward to his significant contributions," said Managing Director Jay Krasoff. "He has extensive leadership experience and has successfully executed hundreds of private investment, M&A and structured finance transactions."

Miller's experience includes a focus on energy technologies in upstream and downstream oil and gas, petrochemicals, water, energy efficiency, and renewables. Before joining Chiron, he was a senior investment director with Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, the corporate venturing subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, the world's leading integrated energy and chemicals company. Previously he was a Managing Director at Perseus, LLC, a private equity and merchant banking firm where he was co-head of the energy and environmental technology investing practice. He co-founded Mill Consulting Group, L.P., providing investment, M&A, finance and other strategic advisory services to small and medium-sized enterprises as well as larger concerns in the U.S. and internationally.

He also previously served as a Partner with Swiss Life Private Equity Partners AG in Zurich, Switzerland; Vice President of the Principal Investments Group for Enron; Founder and Managing Director of UBS Capital GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany; and Head of Structured Finance for Union Bank of Switzerland. He began his career as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers in both New York City and Frankfurt, Germany.