Ex-Sony Ericsson CEO and ex-Verizon CTO join BlackBerry's board

0. phoneArena posted on 07 Feb 2013, 08:33

BlackBerry today announced two new board directors - ex-Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg and ex-Verizon Executive VP Richard "Dick" Lynch. It is said that the new figures will not perform any executive functions within the company, but will try to contribute to BlackBerry's success with their industry knowledge...

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1. wendygarett (limited) 6 days ago posted on 07 Feb 2013, 08:45 1 9

Verizon? No thanks...

5. predator93 posted on 07 Feb 2013, 09:13 2 2

You talk about being unbiased and now you are biased towards a person just because he worked for Verizon in the past?

10. corporateJP posted on 07 Feb 2013, 19:36 0 0

To be fair to the original poster, although I find it tough considering it's "wendygarett", Verizon corporate is a pretty consistent and notorious douche breeding ground these days.

Just saying.

2. Nathan_ingx posted on 07 Feb 2013, 08:49 4 2

Analysts: BB to announce the new 'Xperizon' phones series.

3. Johnnokia posted on 07 Feb 2013, 08:54 2 6

Hopefully, he will not do what he did with Ericsson, when he sold the company to Sony.

11. jsdechavez posted on 07 Feb 2013, 23:59 0 0

Uhm, Sony did not buy Ericsson.. Only the other 50% of the Sony Ericsson partnership.

4. XPERIA-KNIGHT posted on 07 Feb 2013, 08:55 4 3

keep em coming black berry :)

knowledge is power..

6. InspectorGadget80 posted on 07 Feb 2013, 09:33 1 4

They must miss their black berry phones

7. oister85 posted on 07 Feb 2013, 11:01 1 4

Dear bert nordberg your the reason that sony is behind in the smartphone world.

8. smallworld posted on 07 Feb 2013, 15:34 2 2

Sony is not behind anymore. They were before Blackberry, Nokia, HTC and LG in 2012.

9. ohiwastedmylife posted on 07 Feb 2013, 15:54 1 1

d**k looks like he knows A LOT about technology... back in the 70's. It is nice to be C level and just delegate everything to smarter people. Blackberry is so dead. They can spend all the money they want to hire more high level people but when it comes down to producing a good product design with good software, look to people that actually understand it.

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