About Us

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Colette Goodyear

DIRECTOR

Colette is Director of Legal with CoLab Software Inc.  She brings twenty years’ of legal experience working with an established multi-national technology corporation, regional and local tech scale-ups, and the venture capital community to the Board of techNL. 

She graduated from Memorial University in 1988 with a degree in English and a background in computer science, then worked as a technical writer in the early years of the Newfoundland technology sector.  After discovering that there was no or little legal support (or experience) for local industry at the time, she switched to law, graduating from University of New Brunswick Law in 1999 with the goal of providing targeted legal services to the local tech community.  She articled and practiced with Benson Myles (now Benson Buffett).

From 2005-2008, Colette acted as General Counsel with the College of North Atlantic before taking up a position as Commercial Legal Counsel with Radian6/salesforce.com shortly after Radian6’s acquisition by salesforce.com.  Following six years at salesforce.com, Colette worked as in-house counsel with Atlantic Canadian start-ups and venture capital organizations, providing legal advice in the areas of data privacy, intellectual property, commercial negotiations and corporate financing/governance. 

Director of Legal, CoLab Software

Director of Legal, CoLab Software

Colette is Director of Legal with CoLab Software Inc.  She brings twenty years’ of legal experience working with an established multi-national technology corporation, regional and local tech scale-ups, and the venture capital community to the Board of techNL. 

She graduated from Memorial University in 1988 with a degree in English and a background in computer science, then worked as a technical writer in the early years of the Newfoundland technology sector.  After discovering that there was no or little legal support (or experience) for local industry at the time, she switched to law, graduating from University of New Brunswick Law in 1999 with the goal of providing targeted legal services to the local tech community.  She articled and practiced with Benson Myles (now Benson Buffett).

From 2005-2008, Colette acted as General Counsel with the College of North Atlantic before taking up a position as Commercial Legal Counsel with Radian6/salesforce.com shortly after Radian6’s acquisition by salesforce.com.  Following six years at salesforce.com, Colette worked as in-house counsel with Atlantic Canadian start-ups and venture capital organizations, providing legal advice in the areas of data privacy, intellectual property, commercial negotiations and corporate financing/governance. 

Current Board of Directors

Jacqueline Lee

CHAIR

Colette Goodyear

DIRECTOR

Deirdre Ayre

DIRECTOR

Joe Hickey

DIRECTOR

Johanna Brown

DIRECTOR

Mark Cumby

DIRECTOR

Meshari F. Alwashmi

DIRECTOR

Neil Coombs

DIRECTOR

Randy Billard

DIRECTOR

Sheri Wicks

DIRECTOR

Dan Brake

PAST CHAIR

Jacqueline Lee CHAIR

Colette Goodyear DIRECTOR

Deirdre Ayre DIRECTOR

Joe Hickey DIRECTOR

Johanna Brown DIRECTOR

Mark Cumby DIRECTOR

Meshari F. Alwashmi DIRECTOR

Neil Coombs DIRECTOR

Randy Billard DIRECTOR

Sheri Wicks DIRECTOR

Dan Brake PAST CHAIR