We’re thrilled to congratulate our Co-Founder and CEO, Eric Dosal, on his 3-year BrightGauge anniversary! While he's been a part of our story from the first concept to today, this milestone is significant because it marks his move to join our team full-time and the rest, as they say, is history...
Eric grew up in the Miami area where he spent summers working for the family IT business, Compuquip Technologies. Back in those days he started at the bottom, spending his days carrying technician tool boxes and pulling cables, all for $3.75 an hour. When the time came to get ready for college, Eric decided on Babson College because he knew he wanted to study business and there was also a great opportunity to play on the school’s baseball team.
After graduating, Eric went on to follow his finance passion and pursued his dream of working on Wall Street. But as most of these stories go, the reality wasn’t nearly as glamorous as the dream. Eric had been working 90+ hours a week for over 2 years when he decided that this life was not his calling.
Back home in Miami, his father offered a sales position in the family business and Eric ultimately decided to take that opportunity. He worked his way up the management ranks and after 10 years accepted the position of CEO of all the companies under the Dosal Capital umbrella. During that time Eric worked with his brother, Brian, to start the Managed Services division of Compuquip and ended up growing the group from $800K in annual revenue to $8.8MM within a 5-year period. The brothers decided to sell the Managed Services group so that they could focus on a wild idea Brian had: to build a software product.
With a background in the IT business, Eric and Brian immediately recognized what they wanted to accomplish with the software. At the same time, they also knew that founding a business was an incredible opportunity for each of them to focus on their own strengths while building the company and supporting each other. They decided to split responsibilities and Eric would get started on building the BrightGauge sales process and inbound marketing program while Brian would focus on the software development. As the company reached 6, 8, and now 15 employees, the brothers decided to officially split the company into two teams in 2015, Growth and Product, so that each employee could focus on their area of expertise instead of everyone doing a little bit of everything.
As the head of the Growth Team, Eric is responsible for Marketing, Sales, Implementations, Customer Success, Support, and the most recent addition of the Data Customization crew. As he explains it, he loves running the team because he has “a real passion for SMarketing” (combination of Sales & Marketing). To top it all off, Eric also adds executive responsibilities and Finance too.
When he’s not leading our fearless Growth Team, Eric splits his time managing 2 of the other 3 family businesses as President & CEO of Compuquip Cybersecurity and President of Dosal Capital. We’re not sure how he juggles it all, but Eric also plays a big part in the business leadership community in the Miami area as an Executive Committee member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO) and also the Co-Chair of their Forum Group.
If you were starting to think he’s all business, think again! Eric loves spending his free time with his family: daughters Isabella (4) and Andrea (1 ½) and his amazing wife, Lorena. They keep him busy enjoying fun time outside of work hours!
Eric's family time with Isabella, Andrea, and Lorena
Please join us in congratulating Eric on an incredible 3-year journey with the BrightGauge team; we can't wait to see what the next chapter holds for our team!
