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.