Thomas Müller was born in Germany in 1975. In 2000 he moved to the United States. Since the umlaut "ü" does not exist in the English alphabet his last name changed from Müller to Mueller. After getting his Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) from the Claremont Graduate University (CGU) he became one of the first Chief Data Officers (CDO), a fairly new job title of the information/knowledge age.