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...Diamond, who switched to buying Old Masters from Modern art after her husband died in 1982, was an interior designer and the mother of Beastie Boys frontman Mike D....
...Paul 89 Jonathan Lawrence Partner, K&L Gates LLP 90 Tim Hailes Managing Director & Associate General Counsel, JP Morgan 91 Audrey Connolley Director, Senior Persons Regime, Lloyds Banking Group 92 Mike...
...A group working on a competing offer, which included Cerberus Capital Management, the US private equity fund, and BlackBerry founders, Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, received no warning of the decision,...
...They noted that, until Monday, Mr Watsa had been equally enthusiastic about the failed turnround strategy pursued by Mr Heins....
...BlackBerry’s two founders, Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, were close on Friday night to forming a consortium to bid for the struggling smartphone maker with Cerberus Capital Management and Qualcomm, the...
...Reports circulated last week that one of those former chiefs, Mike Lazaridis, had been talking to private equity groups about a possible bid for BlackBerry....
...Mr Balsillie was co-chief of the company, which was known as RIM until a few weeks ago, with Mike Lazaridis until January last year, when both relinquished their posts as the once dominant smartphone manufacturer...
...Mr Heins said the launch marked a “new beginning” for the Canadian smartphone maker....
...BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis will quit the company he set up in the late 1980s as the Canadian handset maker revealed a return to profit after a steady start for its crucial smartphone relaunch....
...He calls out several people who contributed, including Mike Lazaridis. 15:23 Heins emphasises BlackBerry as software that will connect you to “the internet of things” – from cars to home appliances to the...
...Blackberry’s chief executive Thorsten Heins, who bet the smartphone maker’s turnround on the launch of a new operating system and a range of new handsets, resigned....
...the toughest jobs in the technology industry the day he took over from Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie as BlackBerry’s chief executive a year ago, writes Paul Taylor....
...His willingness to abruptly change direction demonstrated one of the ways that Mr Heins, a 54-year-old German-born physicist, differs markedly from the men he replaced, RIM’s founder Mike Lazaridis and his...
...Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, Research In Motion’s former co-chief executives, will receive about $12m in exit payments after they stepped down from the top jobs at the struggling Canadian manufacturer...
...chief executive, Thorsten Heins....
...RIM also announced that Jim Balsillie, who together with Mike Lazaridis stepped down as co-chief executive in January, had resigned from its board....
...Mr Heins, who took over from longtime co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie in January, said the cost-cutting would comprise “an efficiency push across all functions in the organisation”....
...Mr Heins, who took over from co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie last week, said the integration of a network known for its security and handsets with their distinctive keyboards was what...
...Mr Heins, however, made it clear on Thursday that he would do what it takes to rebuild RIM’s market share and turn the company that helped define the smartphone market around....
...The new chief executive will be Thorsten Heins, chief operating officer for product and sales. Mr Heins, a 54 year-old German, joined RIM in 2007 from Siemens, the engineering group....
...The decision of Mike Lazaridis, Research In Motion’s founder, and Jim Balsillie, his co-chief executive for 20 years, to step down over the weekend highlights once again how quickly life on the “bleeding...
...Since its creation two decades ago, the emphasis at RIM has been on innovation and entrepreneurship under its pioneering joint chief executives and chairmen, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie....
...The Waterloo, Ontario-based company named Thorsten Heins as chief executive over the weekend, replacing its two long-serving joint CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie....
...“Mike and Jim took a bold step 18 months ago when RIM purchased QNX to shepherd the transformation of the BlackBerry platform for the next decade,” Mr Heins said....
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