WATERLOO, ON – BlackBerry’s popular mobile messaging platform BBM is used by more than 85% of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) enabled organizations running BlackBerry smartphones. An end-to-end solution that allows logging, archiving and auditing of BBM conversations and that aids in meeting compliance requirements in regulated industries, BBM use within the organization is available today on BlackBerry OS, and will become available this spring for BlackBerry 10 users in regulated environments, the company confirmed Thursday.
In other company news, James S. Mackey was named EVP for corporate development and strategic planning, and Mark Wilson was appointed SVP of marketing.
Before joining BlackBerry, Mackey served as senior vice president of corporate development at Open Text Corp., as well as head of corporate development at SAP, where he developed and led the company's global merger and acquisitions group.
Wilson will join BlackBerry in January from Avaya, where as its CMO, he led the marketing transition to a customer-solutions orientation. He previously served as senior vice president of corporate and field marketing at Sybase, and has extensive experience in marketing roles at AT&T and KPMG.
"Jim and Mark are important appointments for BlackBerry as they bring extensive experience and add the necessary leadership and depth that will help us drive our transformation," said executive chair and CEO John Chen, in the announcement. "I have worked extensively with both of them in the past, have the utmost respect for their experience and accomplishments, and we have developed close and trusted relationships with each other that will enable us to cohesively manage the changes required to reshape BlackBerry."
