Bill Schuler is
a seasoned 27-year entrepreneur and senior executive in cable television, broadband and telecommunications. He has extensive start-up,
operations, sales, marketing and network construction experience in ownership and management positions. Most recently, Mr. Schuler
served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Baja Broadband, where he raised $125mm of equity and debt to acquire cable systems
from Charter Communications located in the southwest U.S. comprising over 66,000 customers.
Mr. Schuler oversaw a $40mm upgrade project that successfully launched triple-play and services and advanced video services
to over 85% of homes. He signed numerous major multi-home planned communities for Baja to serve as the exclusive provider of video
and broadband services, including a premier 5,000 home Pulte development in southeastern Nevada and a fiber-to-the-home development
in New Mexico.
Previously, Mr. Schuler was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Carolina BroadBand (Charlotte, NC) where he successfully
raised $402 million in private equity from ten blue-chip telecom-savvy private equity firms, including Bank of America Capital
Partners (now Ridgemont Equity Partners), JPMorgan Partners, Spectrum Equity, Wachovia Capital Partners (formerly First Union
Capital Partners and now Pamlico Capital Partners), Providence Equity Partners, HarbourVest Partners, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Private Equity, Nautic Partners (formerly Navis Partners) and JH Whitney & Co.
Prior, Mr. Schuler served as General Partner of Nashoba Communications Westford, MA), a cable television system located in the
Boston, MA suburbs, building the company from the ground up from obtaining franchises in 1983, to network build, to successfully
operating the business and the eventual sale in 1994 to Cablevision Systems.
