Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> November 20, 2000
ELDON C. MILLER is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Stockwalk.com Group, Inc., the parent company of the full-service
regional brokerage subsidiary Miller, Johnson & Kuehn, Inc.; and
Stockwalk.com, the online investment subsidiary. Stockwalk.com Group
became a publicly traded company in July 1999, and represents another
entrepreneurial milestone in Mr. Miller's career. The idea to open his
own investment brokerage came when he was already successful as the top
bond salesperson and officer in another local brokerage firm. His
success at Miller & Schroeder fueled his desire to run his own financial
services firm. The idea became reality when he opened the doors of
Miller Securities on March 4, 1981. Since then, he has orchestrated the
transformation of a tiny fixed income (bonds only) operation to a
thriving full-service company (now dba Miller, Johnson & Kuehn, Inc.)
and a new and promising e-commerce subsidiary (Stockwalk.com). Other
accomplishments include the purchase of Juran & Moody of St. Paul in
1997, a well-respected fixed income firm, and more recently the purchase
of Arnold Securities of Minneapolis and M.one Securities of San
Francisco, an online broker offering securities in English, Mandarin and
Cantonese. His major accomplishment is the re-engineering of MJK to
embrace online investing and consequently the well-publicized launch of
Stockwalk.com last year. In an age where dot-com companies are generally
run by young entrepreneurs, Mr. Miller has chosen to lead his firm into
the new millennium by taking his company public, embracing e-commerce
and totally revamping the firm's business model. He earned a Graduate
degree in Banking at the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers
University in New Brunswick, NJ, and was one of the youngest graduates. Profile
Mr. Miller: We started our firm in 1981 as a municipal bond house and
gradually evolved over nearly 20 years. About a
