BlackBerry Limited (BB) CEO John Giamatteo Hosts RBC Capital Markets Global Technology, Internet, Media and Telecommunications Conference (Transcript)

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BlackBerry Limited ( NYSE: BB ) RBC Capital Markets Global Technology, Internet, Media and Telecommunications Conference Call November 19, 2024 3:20 PM ET Company Participants John Giamatteo - Chief Executive Officer Tim Foote - Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Paul Treiber - RBC Capital Markets Paul Treiber All right. So, thanks, everyone, for joining us. My name is Paul Treiber.

For any of you who don't know me, I cover Canadian technology stocks at RBC. I'm pleased to be hosting our next session with BlackBerry. From BlackBerry, we have CEO, John Giamatteo, and then also CFO Tim Foote.



Thank you both for joining us today. John Giamatteo Thank you, Paul. Appreciate it.

Tim Foote Thanks for having us, Paul. Paul Treiber So, for those that don't know, BlackBerry is $1.5 billion market cap provider of enterprise software.

Two key segments: one is cybersecurity and the other one is IoT. Question-and-Answer Session Q - Paul Treiber So, just, John, if you just want to elaborate more on that intro I gave? Just give your perspective on BlackBerry? You joined BlackBerry as CEO within the last year. What do you see as the opportunity for BlackBerry and some of the challenges that you've been managing over the last year? John Giamatteo Sure.

Absolutely, Paul. It's it has been action-packed first year, because we went through a leadership change. And the Board gave the new leadership team, myself and Tim is our new CFO, kind of a mandate to really take a look at everything we're doing as a company, and unbiased, unfiltered, double down on things that are working, pull back on things that maybe not working as well as we'd like.

And that's been kind of the journey for the first year. We set ourselves up into two virtually autonomous business units, our IoT.