BlackBerry taps former Cisco exec Bryan Palma as president, COO

WATERLOO – Former Cisco exec and U.S. Secret Service agent Bryan Palma has been named as president and Chief Operating Officer of BlackBerry Inc., effective immediately.Before joining BlackBerry, Palma was the SVP and GM of Cisco's customer experience for the Americas where his team helped customers design, build, and operate a global portfolio of network, security, collaboration, IoT, data center, and cloud services. He was also VP of cyber and security solutions at Boeing, VP of service delivery operations at Hewlett Packard, and PepsiCo’s first Chief Information Security Officer. Before joining the private sector, Palma was a special agent with...