Mike Lazaridis
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Lazaridis served in various positions including co-chairman and co-CEO of BlackBerry from 1984 to 2012 and Board Vice Chair and Chair of the Innovation Committee from 2012 to 2013. As an advocate for the power of basic science to improve and transform the world, he co-founded Quantum Valley Investments in March 2013 with childhood friend and BlackBerry co-founder Douglas Fregin to provide financial and intellectual capital for the further development and commercialization of breakthroughs in quantum information science. In 1999 he founded the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, where he also serves as board chair. In 2002, he founded the Institute for Quantum Computing. He is also a former chancellor of the University of Waterloo, and an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC). Provided by Wikipedia
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2by Eleftheria Chalvatzaki, Sofia Eirini Chatoutsidou, Eleni Mammi-Galani, Susana Marta Almeida, Maria I. Gini, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Evangelia Diapouli, Mihalis LazaridisGet full text
Published 2018-07-01
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