Robert G. Miller is the former owner of Future Electronics, a distributor of electronic components, which he founded in 1968 and built into a global juggernaut. But you won’t find his name on the main pages of the company’s website. In a province where entrepreneurs become minor celebrities simply for having made it, it could be hard to find any trace of the Quebec billionaire.
Miller was a fanatically private person, so reclusive he was rarely photographed. His Westmount home remains obscured on Google Street View, and the CBC reports that the flight logs of his two private jets have been removed from most public databases. His first mention in the pages of Quebec newspapers, as the man who bought Charles Bronfman’s Westmount mansion, can be traced back to the mid-1980s. His name occasionally appeared in classified ads offering sales jobs, or in articles about his business which always made sure to describe him as “publicity-shy,” but that was largely it. Odd for a tech mogul who began cornering the computer components market over a decade before the PC revolution.
