Sukna Ventures

Mazin Alshanbari is a General Partner at Sukna Ventures. He began his career in banking, spending seven years at SNB in Saudi Arabia and Banco Santander in Boston in roles across consumer credit policy, risk management, and retail distribution channels, before moving into venture capital at Takamol Holding, where he developed the Musharakah program supporting the VC and PE industry through fund manager guarantees. He later helped establish the PIF Fund of Funds (Jada), building its governance framework and operations, and served as Investment Director for its venture capital and venture debt portfolio and subsequently as Chief Investment Officer. He holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University and an MBA from Babson College.

Dutch strategy and finance professional who began at Rabobank and worked as an Investment Manager at private equity fund Karmijn Kapitaal, then served as CFO of sustainable tech startup BIYU. She founded Investing For Purpose in Greece and holds an MSc in International Economics and Business.

Asher Siddiqui is a technology investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area and serves as Managing Director at Song United, where he oversees the venture investment portfolio of Dug Song, founder of Duo Security. He is building ASILICA, a service that assists founders and tech operators in evaluating investment opportunities and constructing venture portfolios across funds, direct investments, and secondaries. His career spans entrepreneurship, corporate development and M&A, and venture capital as both a general partner and limited partner, including more than 100 early-stage investments and over 20 venture fund investments as an LP.

Omar Hamdalla is a Principal at Sukna Ventures. He holds an MBA from Harvard and has worked across finance, investment, product development, strategy, and transformation in a range of industries.

Founder and CIO of SAM Capital Partners. Previously a senior portfolio manager at Cheyne Capital in London for over six years, building its European equity business, and held senior roles at Morgan Stanley in London and Frankfurt covering German equities. Earlier spent seven years as a fixed income and equity-linked trader at Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt and New York.