Al Schneider is an active early-stage investor and experienced board member on both private corporate and non-profit boards. He has been an angel investor since 2000 in the Los Angeles area and, in the 1990’s and again since 2015, in the Washington, D.C. area, mentoring both entrepreneurs and younger investors. He has invested in over 50 private companies since the late-1990’s and has served on the boards of numerous 501(c)(3) civic organizations including Entretech in the Los Angeles area, City Hall Fellows in San Francisco and Americans United for Separation of Church and State in Washington, D.C.

After moving to LA in 1998, he was a co-founder in 2000 of Pasadena Angels, and served for over a decade as a board member, Vice Chairman, and then Chairman of this ~100 member group. He has also been active since 2000 in the 400 member Tech Coast Angels, served as Vice President and President (in 2006-2010) of its ~100 member Los Angeles network, and served on the parent Board. Since their inception, these two angel organizations, now both part of the TCA Venture Group, have assisted over 550 companies raise hundreds of millions of dollars in angel funding and billions in follow-on funding from venture capital funds and strategic partners. Early in his work with angel-funded companies, he served on the boards of Pictage, a complete digital proofing, marketing and production solution for professional photographers acquired by an affiliate of Apax Partners, and Unified Dispatch, a software company serving the ground transportation industry. For nearly a decade, he also served as Chairman of H2Scan, a global leader in hydrogen sensing products for area monitoring and process control in various utility, chemical and energy industries. Prior to focusing on early stage investments in Southern California, most of his career was spent in the real estate and healthcare property investment, finance and development industries. He was Vice President of the B.F. Saul Company, a diversified real estate organization which then advised the public REIT now known as Saul Centers (NYSE-BFS). Later, he was the COO of The Canterbury Group, a private real estate company which developed rental apartments, condominiums, motels and other residential and healthcare properties, and President of the Northern Virginia Apartment Association. His earliest private equity investments outside the real estate field, in the mid-1990's, included Clifton Mining (NASDAQ-CFTN).

Al grew up in St. Louis, and earned a B.A, M.A. and M.B.A. from Harvard. He has been married to Cathy Heron, a tax and mutual fund attorney, since 1977. They have a son, daughter and four grandchildren living in the Phoenix area and Northern Virginia. After living for fifteen years in LaCanada, CA, they now divide their time between Manhattan Beach, CA and Arlington, VA. In recent years, their charitable interests have focused on medical research at Medstar/Georgetown Hospital, Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic; on undergraduate education at Harvard; on religious freedom and civil liberties through Americans United for Separation of Church and State; and on investigative journalism through NPR and The American Prospect