Jim Balsillie
Or the beginning of the end. There was Mike Lazaridis, four years post-iPhone, sitting with BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones for a quickie interview and product demo. Stout and gray-haired, glasses perched on his nose ...

Thorsten Heins
Stymiest, who replaced founder Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, faces the challenge of convincing investors she can help push for changes needed for RIM to revive plunging sales and stock price. Stymiest declined to say whether any new ...

How beleaguered RIMs half-CEOs lost an empire
The pressure culminated with the departure of RIMs co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie last month. Thorsten Heins, a former Siemens AG executive who joined RIM back in late 2007, has taken the reins. How the PlayBook upgrade goes down ...

RIMs Stymiest Vows More Forceful Board to Revive BlackBerry
Heins, who is replacing co-Chief Executive Officers Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, joined RIM four years ago after more than two decades at German engineering giant Siemens AG in roles ranging from research and development to product management.

RIMs PlayBook gets email with software upgrade
Less than a year ago, former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis ranted against the critics and users who haven't "appreciated" the company's profits and growth. "Why is it that people don't appreciate the fact that we spent the last four years going global?"

Heins Brings Hardware Skills to RIMs Battle With Apple, Google
The combative Mr. Martin forcefully rejects that view, challenging the notion that last month's resignation of the embattled Mr. Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis as co-CEOs and chairmen was a case of too little, too late. "I laugh at the vast ...

RIM Still as Clueless and Arrogant as Ever
In October, the company's BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging service went offline across much of the world for a number of days, which led then co-CEO Mike Lazaridis to issue a public apology. Lazaridis and RIM's other co-CEO, Jim Balsillie ...

Globe&Mail: Board member defends RIM, new CEO
To wit, he all but admitted that the 11 members of RIM's board have been lackeys to cofounders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. "If we were to say to Jim and Mike, 'Well, we're the board and you should go away now.' They would have laughed at ...

Dubai energy giant dumps BlackBerry for Apple
What's wrong with Steve Ballmer? Is it the same as what was wrong with Research in Motion's semi-departed co-CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie? Does RIM's new CEO, Thorsten Heins, share the problem? How about Steve Jobs's successor ...

Business school dean doesn't walk the talk
Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped aside as RIMs co-CEOs last month. Thorsten Heins became the new chief as the once-iconic maker of the BlackBerry smartphone confronts the most difficult period in its history. Americans are abandoning their ...