Todd Miller

For the past 18 years, Todd has served as Partner at Western States Technologies (WST), a real estate investment company headquartered in Los Angeles. The firm concentrates on the successful development, acquisition and rehabilitation of industrial and office properties located throughout Southern California. Along with these duties, he is responsible for the asset management of WST's portfolio consisting of over 1,000,000 square feet of property. Previous to his current position, Todd was Vice-President/Director of Marketing at The Sammis Company, a real estate investment company located in Irvine, California. While at Sammis, he was instrumental in the acquisition of over $160,000,000 in industrial properties across the country totaling approximately 4,000,000 square feet.

In 1984 Todd graduated cum laude from the Real Estate Finance Program at The University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, and was awarded membership in The Golden Key International Honour Society. He played Division I volleyball on two of the Trojans NCAA Final Four teams. Volleyball is still the sport of choice for Todd. He competes each year in several tournaments, recently winning three silver medals and one bronze at the United States Volleyball Adult National Championships and a gold medal from the 2010 Huntsman World Senior Games in St. George, Utah.

 For ten consecutive years, Todd was co-director of an annual beach volleyball tournament that raised six-figure contributions for such charities as Boys and Girls Club of America, Boys Hope Girls Hope, American Cancer Society, and Friendship Shelter. Todd supports USC in several capacities, both athletic and academic. He also volunteers his time in the university's Athletic Department Mentor Program, serving as a one-on-one mentor to student athletes, and as a keynote speaker at various program events. Since circumnavigating the globe and meeting his wife, Joselyn, on his inaugural Semester at Sea voyage Spring 1984, the two have visited over 70 countries, and all seven continents, with an emphasis on adventure travel.

Some of their most recent journeys have taken them to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Mt. Everest Base Camp, the interior of a great white shark cage off the coast of South Africa, a research vessel amid the Galapagos Islands, and a dive boat near Hon Mun Island, Vietnam. The couple, along with their children, recently spent time volunteering as research assistants for biologists in Botswana. With conservation as their focus, they worked closely with leopards, elephants and African wild dogs. Since his original voyage Spring 1984 as a student, Todd has subsequently sailed on several partial voyages: Fall 2002, Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007 and Sping 2009. For the past 20 years, Todd and Joselyn have called Laguna Beach, California, home. Their daughter sailed on the Spring 2010 voyage and their son is looking forward to sailing in the next couple of years.

In March 2011, Todd and Joselyn launched their non-profit, GlobalGrins.org, addressing the strong connection between oral hygiene and overall health by delivering toothbrushes to those in need worldwide.