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Mike Lazaridis, the co-founder of BlackBerry (formerly known as Research In Motion), is leaving the company as vice chairman and board director. Here are some biographical details on him.<\/p>\n
Name: Mike Lazaridis<\/p>\n
Age: 52<\/p>\n
Born: March 14, 1961, in Istanbul, Turkey<\/p>\n
Hometown: Windsor, Ontario, since moving to Canada as a kid in 1966.<\/p>\n
Education: Attended University of Waterloo in electrical engineering. Dropped out to start RIM. Later, While leading RIM, he served as the school’s chancellor.<\/p>\n
Family: Married with two kids.<\/p>\n
Career:<\/p>\n
* Invented BlackBerry and co-founded RIM in 1984, during his last year at college.<\/p>\n
* Stepped down as co-CEO in January 2012, became vice chairman and board director.<\/p>\n
* Leaving RIM on May 1.<\/p>\n
* Recently co-founded a $100 million venture capital fund called Quantum Valley Investments, to focus on the power of quantum computing.<\/p>\n
Community:<\/p>\n
* Founded the Quantum-Nano Centre in Waterloo in 2012.<\/p>\n
* Founded the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in 2002.<\/p>\n
* Established the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2000.<\/p>\n
* Has spent $270 million in the community, including $170 million on Perimeter.<\/p>\n
Early achiever: He won a prize at age 12 for reading every science book in the Windsor Public Library.<\/p>\n
The Arts: Won Academy Award and Emmy Award for technical achievements for developing a high-speed bar-code reader that has helped speed up film editing.<\/p>\n
Quote: “I’m very proud of what we built at RIM together. I believe I’m leaving the company in good hands.”<\/p>\n
Wealth: Lazaridis’ stake in RIM was worth more than $3 billion at its peak in 2008, according to Forbes magazine, but the value has fallen to about $440 million amid the company’s declining stock price.<\/p>\n
via Meet BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis – Times Of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Blackberry’nin Kurucusu \u0130stanbul do\u011fumlu Lazaridis \u015firketteki g\u00f6revini b\u0131rak\u0131yor. Mike Lazaridis, the co-founder of BlackBerry (formerly known as Research In Motion), is leaving the company as vice chairman and board director. Here are some biographical details on him. Name: Mike Lazaridis Age: 52 Born: March 14, 1961, in Istanbul, Turkey Hometown: Windsor, Ontario, since moving to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846],"tags":[7216],"class_list":["post-68922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-blackberry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}