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Al Bsharah

Business minded, technically inclined. Starting, supporting, and investing in early stage companies.

Encinitas, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $80,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $930,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $160,000.00

Skills

Internet Entrepreneur
Business Minded
Technically Inclined
Lean Startup
Customer Development
Team Leadership
Product Management
Team Management
Operations Management
Professional Services
Managed Services
Social Media
Process Development
Crisis Management
Strategic Business
Problem Solving
Product Development
SaaS
Entrepreneurship
Start-ups

Education

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2020

    Our community of founders, investors, and subject matter experts FIND, EVALUATE, FUND, and SUPPORT the best companies. This increases our odds of success and you can invest with us, regardless of your budget.

  • Mentor

    2015

  • Mentor

    2014

2016 - 2020

  • Vice President, Product Operations

    2019 - 2020

    Guided the product culture to be more data and feedback driven. Increased cross-functional communication between the product org and nearly every other org. Helped establish technologies and processes to improve visibility into product progress. Implemented a number of technologies to help gather direct feedback and data from our user base.

  • Vice President, Data & Analytics

    2016 - 2019

    Led the team that built the first enterprise-grade, BI-tool driven, SaaS analytics platform for our customers, from the ground up. Helped lay the groundwork for years of data and analytics improvements.

2017 - 2019

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2019

    Startup San Diego is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurs with education, guidance, and networking. The organization runs local events such as the famous San Diego Startup Week and is one of the largest organizations serving the entrepreneurial community in the region.

  • CEO and Cofounder

    2011 - 2016

    Acquired by Return Path in 2016. We built big data tech that helped legitimate brands understand when their email marketing programs were tanking and what they could do to fix them. In real-time.

2010 - 2012

  • CTO / CMO Consultant

    2010 - 2012

    Recruited by SDA executives to help modernize the residential, commercial, and government security space from a technology and marketing perspective. Efforts led to an increase of recurring monthly revenue and market share.

CenterBeam

2008 - 2010

  • Manager of Product Development and Internet Marketing

    2010 - 2010

    Championed by executive team to implement new lead generation efforts, a partner / resale program, and communication improvements between technical and marketing teams.

  • Chief Architect, Monitoring

    2008 - 2009

    Post-acquisition, program managed corporate integration, directed the product launch of a new virtual data center (private cloud), managed consolidation of data centers, directed updates to 50% of infrastructure within 6 months with zero downtime.

2005 - 2008

  • Director, Managed Services Technologies

    2005 - 2008

    Acquired by CenterBeam in 2008. Led the technical team that built the technologies behind a new 24x7x365 Network Operations Center, including an industry-first web portal providing a consolidated interface for customers. Increased uptime for Network Operations Center and Corporate systems from 95% to 99.9% and reduced collocation costs by 25% within a year. Devised and renegotiated new cost structures for software vendors allowing sales teams to increase closure rate by 20%.

2003 - 2005

  • Founder, CEO

    2003 - 2005

    This was my first startup, and first failure. Built some cool tech, took on too much, didn't know what I was doing, made a lot of mistakes! As a self-funded solo founder I built an e-commerce network that allowed businesses to easily resell others’ products including drop-ship and credit card processing automation. In 9 months I built the product and had a number of customers. Operation of customer support, the on-line mall of stores, all credit card processing, shipping calculations, and financial processes were automated.