Daniel J. Schultz, Managing Director and co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham Ventures.

Daniel J. Schultz is a Managing Director and co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham Ventures. Danny is a member of the Board of Directors of Pivot Solutions (IM-based FIX-enabled trade execution platform) and Magnolia Broadband (RF smart antenna chipsets), Chairman of the Board of SMART System Technologies (contactless payment and CRM platform) and a Board observer at XOsoft (disaster recovery software). He is a frequent speaker at entrepreneurial and technology-related conferences. Previously, Danny was a senior banker with Lehman Brothers’ equity capital market groups in both New York and London focused on technology and emerging growth companies in the US and Israel. Just prior to founding DFJ Gotham, he was head of Equity Private Placements at Lehman Brothers where he spearheaded a dramatic increase in the firm’s venture capital financings for a variety of technology, consumer products and healthcare companies. Danny is a member of the Investment Committee of the endowment fund of the American Friends of The Hebrew University and is AFHU’s Assistant Treasurer. He is also a member of the Finance Committee at Willow Ridge Country Club. Danny graduated from Columbia University where he received his A.B. in Economics. He and his family reside in Westchester New York. danny@dfjgotham.com.