Baja
Broadband Management Team
The management
team for Baja Broadband includes seasoned executives with over 60 years
of experience in operating, financing, engineering, constructing, selling,
marketing, and developing cable television, broadband, telecommunications,
and data services.
William A. Schuler
Chief Executive Officer
Bill Schuler
is a seasoned 27-year cable television entrepreneur and senior executive.
He has extensive start-up, operations, sales, marketing and network
construction experience in ownership and management positions. His career
includes franchising, financing, constructing, and operating cable television
systems in California, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania
and South Carolina. Mr. Schuler has started, turned around and built
telecommunications businesses.
During his career, Mr. Schuler has demonstrated his skills as a successful,
multi-year P & L manager who balances the ability to recognize market
opportunities and formulate strategy, with drill down execution skills
to achieve on-time, on-budget superior performance. He has more than
fifteen years of operating experience managing accounting and finance,
budgeting and banking/investor relations. Mr. Schuler has structured,
built and incented high performance teams of employees. His experience
also includes evaluating business plans for investment, mergers, acquisitions,
sales/divestiture and a focus on superior EBIDTA performance.
Mr. Schuler's
career history includes four years of entrepreneurial business development
and consulting with a long-standing relationship with M/C Venture Partners;
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Carolina BroadBand (Charlotte,
NC) where he successfully raised over $500 million in private equity
from ten blue-chip telecom-savvy private equity firms, including M/C
Venture Partners, Bank of America Capital Partners, JPMorgan Partners,
Spectrum Equity, Wachovia Capital Partners (formerly First Union Capital
Partners), Providence Equity Partners, HarbourVest Partners, Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter, Nautic Partners (formerly Navis Partners) and JH
Whitney & Co., for a startup broadband service provider in the Carolinas;
a founding general partnership in a startup opportunity with Nashoba
Communications (dba Nashoba Cable, Westford, MA); a partnership in a
turn-around situation at Global Cable TV (Lancaster, NY); and serving
as Director of Marketing at Lenfest Cable Group (Abington, PA). He has
a bachelor's degree in communications from Temple University.
Robert
Calgi - Vice President - Marketing & Business Development
Sharon
Levesque, CPA - Vice President - Finance
Kathleen
Davis - Vice President - Regulatory Affairs
Steve
Delgado - Chief Operating Officer