Mike Lazaridis. Personal, education, and career history[edit] Donations[edit] In 2000, Lazaridis founded the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He has donated more than $170 million to the institute. In 2002, Lazaridis founded the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo. He has donated more than $100 million to IQC.
Awards and accolades[edit] On October 21, 1999, Lazaridis received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo, and in June 2003, he became its eighth chancellor. He received an Academy Award and Emmy Award for technical achievements.[8] References[edit] External links[edit] James Balsillie. Research In Motion - Investors. Mike Lazaridis is President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion, a company he founded while a student at the University of Waterloo, Canada. At RIM, Mike is responsible for product strategy, research and development, product development, and manufacturing. Mike is known in the global wireless community as a visionary, innovator, and engineer of extraordinary talent. Since founding RIM he has earned more than thirty patents and dozens of industry and community awards for his innovations in wireless radio technology and software.
Mike supports his community and country through generous philanthropic gifts made possible by his success in business. His most noted commitment established Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2000. In recognition of his leadership and innovation Mike was named Canada's Nation Builder of the Year for 2002 by readers of The Globe and Mail. #618 James Balsillie - Forbes.com. Jim Balsillie. James Laurence "Jim" Balsillie (born February 3, 1961) is a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and co-founder[3] and former co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion ('BlackBerry'). He is also the founder of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Canadian International Council (CIC) and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA).
Following his retirement as co-CEO of RIM in January 2012, Balsillie assumed a director role on RIM's Board of Directors. In March 2012, he resigned from the Board due to strategic differences[4] with RIM's new leader and CEO, Thorsten Heins, who abandoned the licensing strategy[5] that Balsillie was pursuing. He served as a member of the United Nations Panel on Global Sustainability until 2012. In June 2013, the Government of Canada appointed Balsillie as the Chair of Sustainable Development Technologies Canada.[6] Background[edit] Hockey[edit] Philanthropic work[edit] Statement regarding patents[edit] Resignations[edit] BlackBerry outage worst ever, service restored - Oct. 13. Research in Motion founder Mike Lazaridis told customers: "We've let many of you down.
" NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- RIM's BlackBerry service was fully restored around the world early Thursday morning after what the company called its largest-ever network disruption. Details on the outage, which began Monday and affected millions of users around the globe, came out during a conference call Thursday morning with top executives from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. RIM (RIMM) founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said the BlackBerry service's infrastructure "suffered a hardware error," and then the problem cascaded. A backup system "did not work the way we intended. " Lazaridis said RIM is "working with vendors to fix the particular error that occurred Monday," but he declined to name specific vendors.
The BlackBerry service outage started in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. By Tuesday it spread to South America. The reps dodged several questions about make-good efforts for customers.