The global and rapidly growing Canadian cannabis company Wayland Group has hired a former corporate lawyer and in-house player in the tech industry as its chief attorney.

Wayland Group announced Matthew McLeod’s appointment to the newly created role of general counsel on Monday, his first day on the job. He enters the in-house world of the marijuana industry after serving for almost two years as legal counsel and vice president of legal and compliance for Toronto-based software company Sigma Systems.