Dinner & Fireside Chat with April Dunford (Ambient) and Hana Abaza (Shopify) | Plated by Golden Ventures

​You're invited to Plated - an invite-only dinner series hosted by Golden Ventures in partnership with SVB Canada and with sponsorship from MNP.

​​Please join us for a private dinner and fireside chat with April Dunford, Founder of Ambient Strategy and Hana Abaza, former Global Head of Revenue Marketing at Shopify.

​We're bringing together the best and brightest Founders, CEOs, and Senior Marketing Leaders for a private dinner to discuss all things positioning and marketing. April Dunford is a global positioning expert for growing tech companies and will share why positioning matters, how to do it, and how your team can leverage positioning to win business, fundraise, and close candidates. Hana is a seasoned marketing executive who will walk us through how growing companies should think about marketing and its jobs to be done.

​You won't want to miss this fireside chat! Seats are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis.

​​The Details
Date: Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
Time: 6 pm - 9 pm ET
Location: Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), 317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4
Please note that the AGO bistro has a separate entrance; when you arrive, you can let the host know that you are with Golden Ventures

​​Agenda
6:00: Cocktail Social
6:30: Discussion and Q&A
7:45: Dinner

​​​Note: This event is invite-only; please do not forward it to others without confirming with a host - Ameet or Julia

Ameet Shah (ameet@golden.ventures)
Julia Baird (julia@golden.ventures)

​About Plated by Golden Ventures

​​Plated by Golden Ventures is a private and invite-only dinner series that brings together the best and the brightest in a given field to connect and foster meaningful relationships. Previous dinners have focused on; technical leaders, which featured Jason Warner, MD, at Redpoint Ventures (former CTO at Github) and Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering at Shopify; and people leaders, which featured Linsey Jackson, Head of Talent at Faire (ex: Airbnb, Lyft, Facebook, Google) and Christine Song, Chief People Officer at Knix and founder of TopscaleHR (ex: Notch, BioConnect, Coinsquare, Nexonia).

​​April Dunford
April Dunford is a consultant and author who helps companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. She is a globally recognized expert in Positioning, having launched 16 products across her 25-year career running marketing, product and sales teams at a series of successful startups. She is the author of the best-selling book Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get it, Buy it, Love it www.aprildunford.com

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​Hana Abaza
Hana Abaza is a seasoned head of marketing with extensive experience in B2B SaaS. She has a proven track record for driving growth and scaling teams. In her most recent role as Global Head of Revenue Marketing at Shopify, her team was responsible for driving billions in revenue through acquisition, expansion, and cross-sell. Hana is also an advisor and board member, helping startups with their go-to-market strategy and execution.

​​Golden Ventures
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We’re here to support founders who are building the future. It is our job to take big risks on the world’s most talented, driven and resilient founding teams who want to change the world.

​​We believe technology is not an industry. It transcends conventional categories and touches every facet of life, improving the world as we know it. People will find new ways to make things simpler, faster, cheaper, and smarter. It is for this reason that we invest across sectors, trusting a founder’s ability to teach us what is on the horizon and deliberately leverage our mentorship and diverse network to their advantage.

​​It is also why we focus exclusively on our superpower, the seed stage. While companies at seed stage might seem messy and imperfect to most, that’s our comfort zone. It’s where we can help you identify what matters — setting milestones and the necessary focus that will help you achieve product-market fit.

​SVB Canada
Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and investors, provides commercial banking services, expertise and insights to the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity, venture capital and premium wine industries. Silicon Valley Bank operates in centers of innovation around the world and is one of SVB’s core businesses with SVB Capital, SVB Private and SVB Securities. With global commercial banking services, Silicon Valley Bank helps address the unique needs of its dynamic, fast-growing, innovative clients. Learn more at svb.com.

​MNP LLP
National in scope and local in focus, MNP is one of Canada’s leading professional services firms — proudly serving individuals, businesses, and organizations since 1958. Through partner-led engagements and the development of strong relationships, we provide client-focused accounting, consulting, tax, and digital services. Our clients benefit from personalized strategies with a local perspective to fuel success wherever business takes them. MNP and its more than 7,000 team members across Canada are proud to be the only national professional services firm headquartered in Calgary.