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4 unusual facts about Jim Balsillie


2006–07 Nashville Predators season

On May 23, 2007, Craig Leipold was reported to have reached a tentative agreement to sell the team to the Chairman and Co-CEO of Research In Motion, Jim Balsillie.

2006–07 Pittsburgh Penguins season

After Jim Balsillie had agreed to purchase the franchise for $175 million and to keep it in Pittsburgh, the situation seemed settled.

Anatole Kaletsky

In 2012, Kaletsky was appointed Chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, a foundation established after the 2008 financial crisis with $200m of grants from George Soros, Paul Volcker, William Janeway, Jim Balsillie and other leading financiers.

Dollarton Cantech Letter

One notable article documented an experience of Adamou who, as a young fund manager, was the first person that Jim Balsillie of Research in Motion pitched to in a pre-IPO institutional series of meetings.


Thorsten Heins

In January 2012 he was named to succeed BlackBerry company founders Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis as president and CEO of BlackBerry.


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