Al Bsharah

Managing Partner

2020 - Current

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Mentor

2015

Mentor

2014

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.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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.