BlackBerry Restricted (NYSE:BB) RBC Capital Markets International Expertise, Web, Media and Telecommunications Convention Name November 19, 2024 3:20 PM ET
Firm Members
John Giamatteo – Chief Government OfficerTim Foote – Chief Monetary Officer
Convention Name Members
Paul Treiber – RBC Capital Markets
Paul Treiber
All proper. So, thanks, everybody, for becoming a member of us. My title is Paul Treiber. For any of you who do not know me, I cowl Canadian expertise shares at RBC. I am happy to be internet hosting our subsequent session with BlackBerry. From BlackBerry, now we have CEO, John Giamatteo, after which additionally CFO Tim Foote. Thanks each for becoming a member of us immediately.
John Giamatteo
Thanks, Paul. Admire it.
Tim Foote
Thanks for having us, Paul.
Paul Treiber
So, for people who do not know, BlackBerry is $1.5 billion market cap supplier of enterprise software program. Two key segments: one is cybersecurity and the opposite one is IoT.
Query-and-Reply Session
Q – Paul Treiber
So, simply, John, in case you simply wish to elaborate extra on that intro I gave? Simply give your perspective on BlackBerry? You joined BlackBerry as CEO inside the final yr. What do you see as the chance for BlackBerry and a few of the challenges that you have been managing during the last yr?
John Giamatteo
Certain. Completely, Paul. It is it has been action-packed first yr, as a result of we went by a management change. And the Board gave the brand new management staff, myself and Tim is our new CFO, type of a mandate to actually check out every part we’re doing as an organization, and unbiased, unfiltered, double down on issues which can be working, pull again on issues that possibly not working in addition to we might like. And that is been type of the journey for the primary yr.
We set ourselves up into two nearly autonomous enterprise items, our IoT
