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Al Bsharah
Managing Partner at Interlock Capital
Encinitas, California
Overview
Al Bsharah is a business-minded entrepreneur based in Encinitas, California, known for starting, supporting, and investing in early-stage companies. With a background in product management and operations, he has held leadership roles at companies like Seismic and Email Copilot, and currently serves as the Managing Partner at Interlock Capital, while also mentoring at Techstars and Founder Institute.
Highlights of Al Bsharah's career include serving as the CEO and Cofounder of Email Copilot, as well as his current role as Managing Partner at Interlock Capital, where he invests in early-stage companies in sectors like Data Services and SaaS.
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2020 - Current
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Mentor
2015
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
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.
Seismic is the global leader in enablement, helping organizations engage customers, enable teams, and ignite revenue growth.
Raised $446,500,000.00 from PNC Bank.
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.
The official Non-Profit Organization to support individuals building startups in San Diego.
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.
SDA Security is a security and investigations company providing burglary and theft prevention services.
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.