BlackBerry has announced the appointment of Marty Beard as its Chief Operating Officer. Beard was previously Chairman and CEO of LiveOps, a cloud-based company that specializes in customer service, and has also served as President of Sybase 365 and various roles at Oracle.
As COO of BlackBerry, Beard will be “responsible for cross-functional organizations, including Marketing, BlackBerry 10 Application Development, Customer Care and Quality.” In addition, Beard’s duties will include implementing best practices and processes to make BlackBerry successful in the future.
BlackBerry Executive Chairman and CEO John Chen said, “BlackBerry continues to attract top talent to the company. Marty brings extensive experience in operations, marketing and serving customers through the best technologies and processes available.”
Beard starts immediately and joins John Chen, James Mackey, John Sims, Mark Wilson, James Yersh and Steven Zipperstein on the Executive Team at BlackBerry.
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