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Jamie Opalchuk

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Location: Burlington, Canada

Jamie Opalchuk is the founder of Opie Capital. He has a 35-year career as an operator across the Canadian technology industry, and started Opie Capital in 2025 to consolidate the family's direct operating, real-estate, and strategic-investment holdings under a single long-term structure.

The companies Jamie has founded have been ranked on the Globe and Mail's annual list of Canada's fastest-growing companies sixteen times — ten of those rankings for HostPapa alone.

HostPapa

Jamie founded HostPapa in 2007. Today it is one of Canada's largest independent web hosting and cloud services providers, with 800+ team members and 1,000,000+ SMB customers worldwide. The company operates across AI, hosting, cloud infrastructure, productivity tools, security, and partner-channel services through a suite of brands including HostPapa, Hostopia, ColoCrossing, and CloudBlue. Under Jamie's leadership, HostPapa has built one of the most active M&A programs in independent hosting, with more than 25 acquisitions since 2019 — most notably the 2023 carve-out of Deluxe Corporation's web hosting and logo design business (NYSE: DLX) and the 2025 carve-out of CloudBlue from Ingram Micro (NYSE: INGM).

OnePlan Business Centers

Jamie founded OnePlan Business Centers in 2015. Based in Burlington, Ontario, OnePlan provides flexible office space, private offices, virtual office services, and on-demand meeting rooms to small businesses and professionals across the Greater Toronto Area.

Opie Properties

Opie Properties is the firm's real-estate portfolio, including commercial buildings and a recently completed 170,000 sq ft freestanding distribution facility in Guelph (100% leased to a third-party logistics operator).

Personal POV

"We have built a team at Opie Capital with hundreds of years of combined operating experience — people who have started, scaled, bought, sold, and run companies through every kind of cycle. Opie Capital is the platform we use to put that experience behind the entrepreneurs and growth-stage companies we believe in. We back operators. We hold for the long run."

Education

  • Bachelor of Science — University of Waterloo
  • MBA — McMaster University
Jamie Opalchuk
Jamie Opalchuk | Opie Capital