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	Innovation Canada \| Investing in the Future \| Mike Lazaridis
		Lazaridis is also a leader in his community and a passionate advocate for education and scientific research.
		Lazaridis is also a long-standing member of the Board of Governors of the University of Waterloo and, in May 2003, was installed as its Chancellor.
		Lazaridis is a member of Maclean’s Honour Role of distinguished Canadians, is a recipient of the 2002 Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce Community Leader of the Year Award, and has been previously recognized as Canada’s Nation Builder of the Year and Ontario’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
	innovationcanada.ca /23/en/articles/lazar.html (1076 words)

	Mike Lazaridis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Just a month before graduation, Lazaridis dropped out and with a $15,000 loan from his Greek immigrant parents and a small government grant, he and a friend launched RIM and got to work on wireless data transmission.
		Born in Turkey to Greek parents, Mike was five years old when his family migrated to Canada in 1966, settling in Windsor, Ontario.
		On October 23, 2000, Lazaridis founded the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics with $100 million of personal funds, along with $10 million contributions from fellow RIM executives Jim Balsillie and Doug Fregin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Lazaridis (378 words)

	The Globe and Mail: Nation Builders - Main page
		Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Research In Motion and father of the Blackberry, was voted top Nation Builder of 2002 in The Globe's on-line June poll.
		Lazaridis represents what we like to consider our national archetype, the new Canadian who succeeds on smarts, is concerned about the greater good, and still gets home to read Dr. Seuss to his kids.
		Lazaridis boasts that RIM was at least partly responsible for the flood of new movies in the early 1990s; their invention meant that work that used to take a film editor two days now required only 20 minutes.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /series/nationbuilders (2103 words)

	RIM Co-Founder Seeks Simplicity - 8/15/2004 - Wireless Week - CA445093 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lazaridis is one-half of the chief executive team — Jim Balsillie is the other — that leads Research In Motion, a world leader in wireless e-mail and a company whose vision is simplicity itself.
		Lazaridis, born in Istanbul, Turkey, to Greek parents, founded RIM in 1984 while he was still a student at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
		Lazaridis doesn't remember exactly what it was that peaked his interest in physics and engineering.
	www.wirelessweek.com /article/CA445093.html?spacedesc=Departments (538 words)

	BlackBerry's creators, national icons, seed philanthropy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lazaridis and Balsillie are indeed making their mark far beyond this university town at the center of Canada's so-called Technology Triangle, which employs 18,000 people at more than 400 high-tech companies.
		Lazaridis, meanwhile, is also chancellor of his alma mater, the University of Waterloo, which is known as the MIT of the north and where Lazaridis has also founded the Institute for Quantum Computing.
		Lazaridis' philanthropic baby is the Perimeter Institute, which he founded in 2000 and which is fast becoming a magnet for some of the sharpest minds in physics.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05296/592480.stm (1105 words)

	CTIA Wireless 2007
		Mike Lazaridis is replacing Motorola CEO Ed Zander as a keynoter.
		âMike Lazaridis is a welcome addition to a stellar keynote line-up this year,â said Robert Mesirow, vice president of operations and show director for CTIA WIRELESS.
		Mike and his team have been researching and inventing the underlying wireless data technologies for over 20 years.
	www.ctiawireless.com /media/news_details.cfm?newsID=150 (351 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Profile: Mike Lazaridis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mike Lazaridis Mike Lazaridis is known in the global wireless community as a visionary, innovator, and engineer of extraordinary talent.
		Lazaridis is a member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Science and Innovation Council, a board member of the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund, and a governor of the Information Technology Association of Canada.
		Lazaridis and Balsillie are indeed making their mark far beyond this university town at the center of Canada's so-called Technology Triangle, which employs 18,000 people at more than 400 high-tech companies.
	www.zoominfo.com /Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=720446 (2959 words)

	Quantum leap in store for high-tech \| The Record.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lazaridis helped convince the Canadian-born researcher to leave the Los Almos National Laboratory in the U.S. and come north again to head the new Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.
		Lazaridis and his wife, Ophelia, have donated $50 million toward it.
		But Lazaridis says it is important for government and industry leaders to continue to do their part and not assume they can sit back and wait for results.
	www.therecord.com /business/techspot/business_techspot_05100675236.html (842 words)

	RIM founder increases research donation to $50 million
		Ophelia and Mike Lazaridis have personally donated an additional $17.2 million (incremental to their $33.3 million donation last year).
		Mike Lazaridis is the university's Chancellor and the Founder, President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM) (TSX: RIM; Nasdaq: RIMM).
		Lazaridis said: "Ophelia and I are grateful to be in a position to contribute and we are proud to see this important research happening within our community and country.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-05/pift-rfi050205.php (514 words)

	McMaster Daily News
		Mike Lazaridis, founder, president and co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree from McMaster University's Faculty of Engineering at its spring convocation.
		Lazaridis will also address the 550 undergraduate, Master's and PhD engineering students at the convocation ceremony to be held June 9, 2005, 2:30 p.m., in the Great Hall at Hamilton Place.
		Lazaridis is known in the global wireless community as a visionary, innovator and engineer of extraordinary talent.
	dailynews.mcmaster.ca /story.cfm?id=2916 (250 words)

	PROFITguide.com \| Magazine \| Persistence in Motion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lazaridis: In 1987 I was invited to go look at some new technology being installed in Canada called Mobitex [a wide-area wireless data network developed by Ericsson].
		Lazaridis: When Ericsson licensed our technology to be put in their wireless modems in 1991, that was a very big early highlight.
		I thought Mike Lazaridis was brilliant because of his vision for the technology, his appreciation that it was about functionality and not speeds and feeds, and his willingness to innovate.
	www.profitguide.com /magazine/article.jsp?content=478 (1292 words)

	Business 2.0 :: Magazine Article :: Features :: BlackBerry Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sitting at a table, Lazaridis pries open a BlackBerry's case and begins pulling out parts one at a time -- the battery, a green circuit board, a flat metal antenna, the display, and the 34-button keyboard.
		Just as e-mail proved to be the killer app for the Internet, Lazaridis and RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie believe it's serving the same role for today's wireless data networks operated by Cingular, Sprint, Verizon, and others.
		Sweetest of all to Lazaridis, BlackBerry shipments currently outpace -- by a factor of three to one -- those of the other red-hot handheld on the market today: PalmOne's Treo 600 smartphone, which comes equipped with a RIM-licensed keyboard and can handle e-mail almost as well.
	www.timeinc.net /b2/subscribers/articles/0,17863,694104-2,00.html (690 words)

	RIM Founder Increases Donation To $50 Million Cambridge Ontario News High Tech on Cambridge Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ophelia and Mike Lazaridis have personally donated an additional $17.2 million (incremental to their $33.3 million donation last year).
		Mike Lazaridis is the university's Chancellor and the Founder, President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM) (TSX: RIM; Nasdaq: RIMM).
		Lazaridis said: "Ophelia and I are grateful to be in a position to contribute and we are proud to see this important research happening within our community and country.
	www.cambridgenow.ca /npps/story.cfm?id=152 (539 words)

	Business Technology: Build Your Company's Receptor Capacity -- Preparing For The Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend a lunchtime talk given by Research In Motion president and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis to a small group of executives and regional-development officials, hosted by the Pittsburgh Technology Council.
		Rather, Lazaridis' construct of "receptor capacity" is, in fact, a call to open up our brains to new and untested ideas, and to lower our dependence on things that are known, comfortable, eminently predictable, and mostly rooted in the here and now.
		Lazaridis concluded by saying that he'd enjoyed his lunchtime chat with Pittsburgh Technology Council CEO Steven Zylstra on whether universities should pursue commercialization of their ideas, their research, and their intellectual property.
	www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164300216 (1100 words)

	CBC News: RIM founder funds high-tech research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		WATERLOO, ONT. - Mike Lazaridis, founder of high-tech success story Research in Motion, and his wife have kick-started a $100 million research program at the University of Waterloo (UW) with a $33.3 million donation.
		The donation from Lazaridis and his wife Ophelia will be matched by the university and public sources, raising $100 million.
		Lazaridis is chancellor of UW and president and co-CEO of RIM.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/04/30/business/waterloo040430 (344 words)

	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is one of the world's leading research centres for young and brilliant minds, focusing on unified theories of cosmology and quantum effects.
		It was founded by Mike Lazaridis, CEO of Research in Motion (a.k.a.
		RIM), with a donation of CAD $100 million, announced on October 23, 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perimeter_Institute_for_Theoretical_Physics (199 words)

	BlackBerryCool » RIM’s Mike Lazaridis to receive honorary degree from McMaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mike Lazaridis, founder, president and co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree from McMaster University’s Faculty of Engineering at its spring convocation.
		Lazaridis will also address the 550 undergraduate, Master’s and PhD engineering students at the convocation ceremony to be held June 9, 2005, 2:30 p.m., in the Great Hall at Hamilton Place.
		Lazaridis’ achievements are an inspiration,” said Mo Elbestawi, Dean, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University.
	www.blackberrycool.com /2005/05/02/00405 (394 words)

	Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lazaridis and Balsillie, both 44 and fathers of two young children, still work out of modest offices at RIM headquarters in Waterloo, a bedroom community an hour's drive from Toronto.
		Lazaridis, meanwhile, is also chancellor of his alma mater, the University of Waterloo, which is known as the MIT of the north and where Lazaridis has also founded the Institute for Quantum Computing.
		Lazaridis' philanthropic baby is the Perimeter Institute, which he founded in 2000 and which is fast becoming a magnet for some of the sharpest minds in physics.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15448430&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=222087&rfi=6 (1075 words)

	Innovator Profiles-Mike Lazaridis
		Education is the wellspring of innovation, according to Mike Lazaridis, who put wireless e-mail on the map with the Blackberry in 1999.
		As a student at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Lazaridis became immersed in networks and e-mail at a time when the business world was still sending memos by telex.
		In 2000, Lazaridis made a hefty donation to his alma mater to fund a new institute for theoretical physics.
	www.eetimes.com /disruption/profiles/lazaridis.jhtml (512 words)

	InfoWorld
		At the helm of the Waterloo, Ontario-based company since leaving college and founding RIM in 1984, Lazaridis has overseen every aspect of development of the increasingly popular BlackBerry handheld device since it was a pipe dream in 1993.
		Located in Waterloo, the city where Lazaridis was born, the institute advances the study of foundational theoretical physics.
		Lazaridis fronted $20 million to initially fund the research institute and will donate $80 million more during the next year.
	www.infoworld.com /awards/awd_iwi_2002_3.html (924 words)

	CTIA Wireless 2007
		Mike Lazaridis is known in the global wireless community as a visionary, innovator, and engineer of extraordinary talent.
		Lazaridis supports his community and country through generous philanthropic gifts made possible by his success in business.
		Lazaridis' leadership and tireless effort have generated more than $100 million in additional private and public sector funding for this world centre of excellence, based in Waterloo and affiliated with more than 30 Canadian universities.
	www.ctiawireless.com /info/keynote.cfm?calID=589 (388 words)

	RIM president hails scalability, partners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mike Lazaridis: The first Wireless Enterprise Symposium was held in 2002, and that was the year of reliability.
		Lazaridis: I think that a lot of ingredients have to be right [for a development community to succeed], but the most important ingredient has to be adoption.
		Lazaridis: The biggest issue is this issue of scale.
	searchdomino.techtarget.com /qna/0,289202,sid4_gci965558,00.html (1327 words)

	BlackBerryCool » RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis Now a TV Star (Sort of) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Amex Canada said today that Mike Lazaridis - the highly respected Canadian behind the worldwide BlackBerry phenomenon - has joined its one-of-a-kind line-up of fascinating individuals being featured in the company’s new global advertising campaign.
		Lazaridis joins actor Robert De Niro, television host Ellen DeGeneres and professional surfer Laird Hamilton to star in the campaign.
		Lazaridis was chosen in part because of his phenomenal business and technology success, but also because he has used his success to pursue philanthropic and educational interests in his community.
	www.blackberrycool.com /2005/07/08/00623 (354 words)

	Michael Lazaridis, Research In Motion - IT Channel - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness
		Lazaridis, who has donated more than $100 million to educational research initiatives in the Waterloo, Ontario, region, and Gates, whose philanthropy has focused on improving health care and education in developing countries, spent their time eagerly discussing each other’s work in channeling the fruits of their business success into building stronger societies.
		Lazaridis dropped out of the University of Waterloo in 1984, a few credits shy of a degree in electrical engineering, and founded Research In Motion (RIM) later that year along with his childhood friend Doug Fregin.
		Johnston and Lazaridis were part of a delegation of officials and students who traveled to New York in late November for the opening of the Waterloo Institute for Computer Research Manhattan, which is the university’s first international office.
	www.crn.com /it-channel/174907165 (1187 words)

	The Technology Chronicles : Research In Motion's CEO Mike Lazaridis talks phones, outage and iPhone
		Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO at RIM, stopped by for a visit and we talked about a number of issues starting with the outage.
		Lazaridis said he's confident BlackBerry users will not see a reoccurrence anytime soon.
		Lazaridis also weighed in on Apple's iPhone, which will debut in late June.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=15575 (473 words)

	Canada Connect :: BlackBerry Creator Lauds Regionâs Technology Development Efforts
		All it takes is the encouragement of new ideas andÂ a little patience, said Lazaridis, who visited Pittsburgh on June 2 for a series of high level discussions and presentations aimed at promotingÂ cross-border co-operation and enhancing high-tech development.
		Lazaridis, who also serves as Chancellor of the University of Waterloo, one of Canadaâs leading centers of technology research, led an entourage of business and academic leaders from the Canadian Technology Triangle interested in establishing new channels of communication and collaboration between Pittsburgh and Waterloo.
		Lazaridis, who recently was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine, pledged to send top officials from the University of Waterloo to explore the development of stronger links between the two institutions.
	www.canada-connect.org /default.aspx?id=52 (549 words)

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