Barry Schuler

DFJ Growth Fund

Managing Director

Companies

Biography

Barry has an impressive record of 30 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 1970s, 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 $1B to $250B in market cap during 20 consecutive quarters of growth. Barry is a serial entrepreneur and a DFJ alumnus. He joined AOL through the acquisition of DFJ-backed Medior, Inc., and previously was CEO of Cricket Software (acquired by Computer Associates.) He is highly experienced in M&A and rollup activities. Barry has worked with venture capitalists for 25 years, has had a long-standing close relationship with DFJ, and co-founded the DFJ Growth Fund in 2006.  Barry is also Chairman and Co-founder of Raydiance, Inc., a DFJ Growth Fund portfolio company, and serves on the boards of EDGAR Online, Good Technology, Raydiance, Inc., Synthetic Genomics, and UUSee.  Barry graduated with a B.A. from Rutgers University and is honored as a Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni member.

In the philanthropic world Barry is well known as a tireless education reformer.  Barry is chairman of New Tech Network, the nation's most replicated classroom transformation model,  now a unit of KnowledgeWorks Foundation, where he serves as a director.  He also co-founded Blue Oak School, Napa Valley's only K-8 independent progressive school.