Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 17, 2005
• Invested on: October 06, 2006

A visionary and innovator, Mike Lazaridis is President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Research In Motion, a company he founded while a student at the University of Waterloo. Known as the creator of the BlackBerryT, he has pioneered a number of technological innovations that have enhanced mobile communications worldwide. A passionate advocate of higher education and research, he has been a generous benefactor to his alma mater, where he founded the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1997.