Jamie Broadhurst is the VP of Marketing for Raincoast Books, the Canadian distribution partner for some leading publishers from around the world. Broadhurst was educated at the University of Toronto and is an Adjunct and Visiting Professor for the Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University.

He has worked in the publishing industry for 20 years, first as a bookseller, then on to Macmillan Canada, John Wiley & Sons and Douglas & Macintyre, before finally joining Raincoast in 2004 where he now heads the marketing department.

Broadhurst is the former president of the national Word on the Street organization, a member of the National Reading Campaign and currently is a director of the Vancouver Public Library Foundation.