Barry M. Schuler
Managing Director

Mr. Schuler has an impressive record of 25 years of visioneering. He was formerly Chairman/CEO of America Online Inc. and is considered one of the pioneers of the Internet. He has made many notable contributions to the IT industry including developing early video games in the 1970’s, pioneering the color desktop presentation category, co-developing the first commercial interactive ecommerce technology which included wallet-based 1-click checkout, co-developing the predecessor to interactive CRM technology developing the first version of America Online designed to appeal to mass market consumers, and notably a member and ultimately leader of the senior management team that matured AOL from $400M to $350B in market cap during 20 consecutive quarters of growth. Mr. Schuler is a serial entrepreneur and a DFJ alumnus. He joined AOL through the acquisition of DFJ-backed Medior, Inc., and previously CEO of Cricket Software (acquired by Computer Associates.) He is highly experienced in M&A and rollup activities. Mr. Schuler has worked with venture capitalists for 20 years and has had a long-standing close relationship with DFJ. Mr. Schuler is also Chairman and Co-founder of Raydiance, Inc., a DFJ Growth Fund portfolio company, and serves on the board of Hands-On Mobile, Inc., UBmatrix, Inc., Visto Corporation, and Raydiance, Inc. Mr. Schuler graduated with a B.A. from Rutgers University.