Jamie Greenberg

Jamie is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Solink, a Goldman Sachs, OMERS Ventures, Valor Equity Partners and BDC backed business with an industry-changing video monitoring system, offering brick-and-mortar businesses a smart way to manage operations, security, and loss prevention. In addition to managing the legal team, he manages a team of corporate development and policy professionals who all work to advance the interests of the business with partners, investors and government. Prior to Solink, for 5 years Jamie led the legal function at Wattpad, the world's largest reading and writing platform, navigating the complex journey from start up to scale up through to one of the most successful acquisitions ($840m CAD) in Canadian tech history. Wattpad was a VC backed startup (Khosla Ventures, Union Square Ventures, OMERS Ventures, Tencent Holdings, Raine Ventures) that was acquired in 2021 by Naver Corp. of South Korea, and currently operates as a subsidiary of Naver and WEBTOON. Jamie led a team of lawyers and experts who manage the complex legal, IP, privacy, HR and policy issues of a 90+ million person user generated content platform. Prior to Wattpad Jamie worked in media at Facet4 producing television series for domestic and international networks, and telecom at Public Mobile (backed by OMERS Ventures, Cartesian Capital and Thomvest Seed Capital) and acquired by TELUS ($250m CAD). Jamie started his career at the Canadian broadcast and telecom regulator, the CRTC. Jamie has been involved in many of the largest private market TMT deals in Canada, both working in-house and in government. Jamie holds a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School, a BA (Jt. Hons) from McGill and is called to the Bar of Ontario. In 2022, Jamie was recognized by Lexpert as a Rising Star and Leading Lawyer Under 40. In 2023, Wattpad's law department was named as an Excellence Awardee in two categories at the Canadian Law Awards; The Canadian Legal Department of the Year and the Law Department Innovation Award and it was also named a finalist at the Canadian General Counsel Awards for the Baker Mckenzie Innovation Award.