Sara Barek Email & Phone Number

Hastings-On-Hudson, Ny, Us

New York City, Ny, Us

Oceans is a new kind of venture capital firm: a team of early stage investors and mentors focused on giving start-ups the hands-on support they need to succeed.We started Oceans because founders kept approaching us individually to ask for help − they had capital but wanted guidance from people who had lived the journey. Steven built Quattro Wireless from the bottom up through to acquisition by Apple and led the pivotal transformation of Foursquare. Josh played an instrumental role in establishing Facebook’s first satellite office in NYC and helped launch several key early products. Glenn architected world class teams and opened up Sales / Marketing and Engineering offices globally for Facebook and Google. Sara ran engagements, designed and implemented software solutions, and built and led global development teams at software companies such as ClearForest, acquired by Thomson Reuters. And Brian led corporate development and M&A efforts across the Time Warner ecosystem, including acquiring startups and putting over $3 billion of capital to work. Drawing on this depth and breadth of experience, we team together to serve as an “inner circle” to founders.

Dobbs Ferry, New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Harmony Institute exists to understand and help people use wisely media’s unprecedented power to shape consciousness and culture. Leveraging the massive volumes of data today’s media generate, Harmony Institute is on a mission to discover the patterns and principles that underlie the interaction of media and society and the emergence of culture.We are an independent applied research lab, a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, practitioners, thinkers and doers, working across sectors, fields and institutions. We have partnered with or received funding from academic institutions, private foundations, advocacy organizations, media publishers, tech companies and others, like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Ford Foundation, The Fledgling Fund, Columbia University, Free Press, MTV and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Harmony Institute is a 501(c)3 based in New York City.

qbeats is a content valuation system that dynamically prices information and provides robust tools for monetization and a revolutionary payment-alternative to access content.

Toronto, On, Ca

Created customer engagement program to increase customer knowledge, satisfaction and participation in the enterprise-wide target information architecture. Led salesforce.com implementation across global team so that stakeholder interactions could inform and coordinate cross-functional engagement strategy.

Toronto, On, Ca

Global head of 8 person Deployed Solutions team located across Israel, India and the United States responsible for enhancing and optimizing natural language processing software implementations. Established new group focused on enhancing production implementations to maximize solutions’ benefits. Developed strategy, managed opportunity pipeline, and successfully led team of developers to deliver 98% of target in less than 12 months. Regularly engaged with senior executives and global heads to present progress and opportunities.

Ensured development team’s efforts focused on strategic initiatives by assessing new opportunities for potential solution benefits, presenting engagement recommendation to executive committee, and assessment and maximizing benefits of delivered solutions.Selected by CEO to lead a SWAT team initiative to identify a problem space and design and implement a solution that delivered tangible benefits from automation within a three month time frame. Solution is now in used in Production and improves efficiency and time to market and reduced headcount.

Managed all aspects of natural language software implementation projects from development of Statement on Work to deployment and adoption of customized software. Building relationships with customers like Caterpillar, GSK, Maritz, JD Powers and Toro was an exceptional way to learn about new industries - it was fascinating to help them find solutions by analyzing their unstructured text. Generated additional services and or software revenue from 100% of customer engagements.

Managed all components of enterprise expertise management software implementation project life cycle. Generated revenue opportunities through customer change requests and expansion; identified up-sell opportunities for every project; efforts led to closing 25% of the professional services total bookings for 2002-2003. Managed off-shore resources used for special initiatives. Developed implementation methodology and best practices; took lead role in an executive-sponsored redesign of the software implementation process; had primary responsibility for beta testing and refining the new process at current and new accounts.

Marketed 70 West Coast investor relations clients to Wall Street analysts and portfolio managers. Responsible for clients’ marketing strategy; researched industry and company peers; generated buy- and sell-side interest; accompanied and counseled management during meetings with financial professionals.

Developed Caspian’s innovative Internet strategy resulting in the only securities firm to have an on-line commingled database of research reports, thus leading the market in its commitment to technology and timeliness.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)

High School