David Miller

President & CEO 

David Miller has been the President and CEO of The Denver Foundation since 1996.  The Denver Foundation is the largest and oldest community foundation in the Rocky Mountain region, with assets of $573 million. 

David is a native of Denver and a fifth generation Denverite.  He is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School.  Since then, he has worked in all three sectors: public, private, and nonprofit.

David spent ten years in Colorado state and local government, serving as Executive Director of the Colorado Office of State Planning and Budgeting and Chief of Staff for Denver Mayor Federico Peña.  After that and before coming to The Denver Foundation, he was a principal in Greenberg, Baron, Simon & Miller, a strategic communications consulting firm. 

David is married and has two adult children.