Summary
Cameron Cohen is General Counsel at Square with over a decade of experience structuring legal and commercial frameworks for payments, real estate, procurement, HR benefits, and regulatory compliance. He spent more than a decade at Amazon in progressively senior roles where he led Payments, Treasury/Risk, and Real Estate legal teams, bringing deep expertise in payment product regulation, merchant and processor contracts, and complex commercial negotiations. Cameron’s background in private practice as a partner advising major card issuers and retailers gives him rare depth on both issuer and merchant sides of payments infrastructure. He combines transactional precision with operational instincts—having managed alcohol licensing, economic development initiatives, and corporate procurement across large, distributed organizations. Known for treating every challenge with a Day 1 mindset, he brings pragmatic risk management to fast-moving product and real estate decisions. Based in Seattle, he pairs Harvard Law training with hands-on experience translating regulatory constraints into scalable business solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Plan II & History Honors, Bachelor's Degree, Plan II & History Honors at The University of Texas at Austin
JD, JD at Harvard Law School