Episode 15: Anna Tichborne, General Counsel, Megaport Limited

Interview
Written By Mel Storey

Anna is a General Counsel with over 17 years' experience working for large and small-medium sized organisations in NZ, Australia and the USA.

Anna has experience across varied practice areas including corporate/ M&A, competition and consumer law, privacy, dispute resolution and employment law across multiple jurisdictions.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • what it’s like to work for entrepreneurs who move fast and need quick and pragmatic legal advice;

  • extending yourself outside purely legal work in the start-up environment when things just need to get done;

  • what it takes to lead a company from start up to ASX200 and what Anna is most proud of in her time at Megaport;

  • how Anna successfully manages a globally dispersed team;

  • why lawyers make excellent NFP board directors; and

  • Anna’s (not one but) two best pieces of career advice.

Connect with Anna:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-tichborne-a9647946/

Website: https://www.facebook.com/CherishWomensCancerFoundation/

Mel Storey
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