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Can you name BlackBerry’s CEO?

If you can, then you my friend are a Waterloo supernerd. But it’s wasted knowledge as John Chen is retiring next week, after serving as CEO since 2013, six years after the iPhone (and later Android) put the brakes on Research In Motion. Stepping into the roll as interim CEO will be Richard Lynch, BlackBerry board member and ex-Verizon CTO.

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