Anna Hamzah
Director of Product, Venture Harbour
Director of Product at Venture Harbour, and co-lead on TrueNorth, our in-house growth-marketing platform.
Anna Hamzah was Director of Product at Venture Harbour from 2020 – 2023. Alongside our CTO she led the engineering team that built TrueNorth, a growth-marketing platform for software businesses, and she helped shape the venture studio's process for taking an idea from sketch to shipped product. Anna also worked closely with Marcus on reviewing content across our portfolio of ventures including VentureHarbour.com.
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