Chief Executive Officer
John Giamatteo is BlackBerry’s Chief Executive Officer and President of its Cybersecurity division. John brings to BlackBerry over 30 years of experience in P&L, go-to-market, marketing, customer relationships, and customer success with global high technology companies. He came to BlackBerry from McAfee where he was President and Chief Revenue Officer for over six years. Prior to that John served as Chief Operating Officer at AVG Technologies, a leading provider of internet and mobile security. He also held leadership positions with Solera, RealNetworks and Nortel Networks.
John holds an MBA and Bachelor of Accounting from St. John’s University in New York.
Chief People Officer
Jennifer Armstrong-Owen is BlackBerry’s Chief People Officer. In this role, she is responsible for BlackBerry’s people strategy and operations in support of its business and team members around the globe. Jennifer brings over 30 years of progressive experience in the HR field and has spent the last fourteen years serving as the people leader for multiple public and private technology companies. These companies include OfferUp, SeekOut, Chef Software, Impinj, Corbis, and RealNetworks.
Jennifer holds an MBA from the University of Washington and a BA from The Evergreen State College. Additionally, she sits on the board of a non-profit organization focused on providing transitional housing for homeless families in the Seattle area.
Senior Vice President and
Chief Strategy Officer
John Dimitropoulos (JD) is BlackBerry’s Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer. He brings over 30 years of extensive international experience in the telecoms, media, and technology sectors. Over the course of his career, JD has been involved with and led many international acquisitions and divestments in Europe, Asia, and the United States for various US-based tech companies.
JD’s recent stints include assisting internet security giant McAfee in the United States with both Corporate Development and Sales Channel optimization. He has also acted as a Corporate Advisor to South Korea’s SK Telecom’s group’s CEO within Southeast Asia.
Additionally, JD spent 12 years consulting with Real Networks, a Seattle-based company, where he was responsible for assisting in the development of the long-term strategy for its Mobile Entertainment division, as well as driving M&A activity for the company.
Prior to this, JD had two stints with Nortel Networks, one in the early '90s in London as well as New York and one in the mid-‘00’s in Seoul, South Korea.
JD holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting and Comp Science) and is currently undertaking his GAICD accreditation.
President, BlackBerry IoT
Mattias Eriksson is President and General Manager of BlackBerry’s IOT Business Unit. The business unit consists of BlackBerry Technology Solutions or BTS (BlackBerry® QNX®, BlackBerry Certicom®, BlackBerry Radar® and BlackBerry Jarvis™) and BlackBerry IVY™. Prior to joining BlackBerry, Mattias spent 10 years with HERE Technologies in various leadership roles, including SVP of the core location data business group and SVP of product. Mattias brings over two decades of experience in automotive location data services, mobile communications and embedded software to BlackBerry.
Mattias started his career in management consulting for Arthur D. Little and then spent 15 years in APAC working in a variety of management roles across Sales-, Business Development and Product Management for Nokia, Motorola, and Siemens.
Mattias holds a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Lund Institute of Technology, a B.Sc. in Marketing and Economics from Lund University and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.
Chief Financial Officer
Tim Foote is BlackBerry’s Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for internal and external financial reporting and compliance, financial strategy and management, investor relations and treasury.
Tim joined the Company following BlackBerry’s acquisition of Good Technology in 2015 and brings over two decades of experience across a number of senior finance leadership positions in both public and private multinational companies. While at BlackBerry, his roles have included managing the Company’s international finance operations, Vice President of Investor Relations and, most recently, CFO for the Cybersecurity division.
Tim holds an MBA from Imperial College Business School, London and is a Chartered Accountant.
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer
Jesse Harold is Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at BlackBerry. In this role, Jesse is responsible for technology operations of the company’s Cybersecurity and IoT SaaS portfolio, IT services and Cloud and business transformation enablement. He also leads all aspects of BlackBerry's information and product security, focusing on effective management of cybersecurity risks, policies and procedures.
Jesse joined BlackBerry’s Core Network Engineering team in 2008. His career with the Company has seen him progress rapidly through various roles to Vice President, where he helped to transform IT into a truly enterprise function, and now CIO. Jesse’s academic background includes an Executive MBA from Queen’s University, an Advanced Diploma in Telecommunications Technology from Sheridan College, and CISM and CRISC credentials.
Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Phil Kurtz is BlackBerry’s Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary with responsibility for the company’s worldwide legal affairs, including corporate governance, strategic transactions, securities regulatory and shareholder matters, litigation, privacy, government relations, compliance and investigations. He is also the leader of the company’s Licensing business and acts as Chief Risk Officer.
Phil has served in roles of increasing responsibility at BlackBerry since 2009, including as Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary. Before joining the company, he was a partner at VenGrowth Capital and an associate at McCarthy Tétrault LLP.
Phil holds LLB and MBA degrees from the University of Toronto and a BA from Huron University College at Western University. In 2012, Phil was a recipient of the Forty Under 40 Award from the Ottawa Business Journal and Ottawa Chamber of Commerce.