Mike Lazaridis

Mike Lazaridis is a Canadian businessman and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Research In Motion, now BlackBerry, in 1984 and helped develop the BlackBerry device. He later became a major supporter of fundamental science, founding Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and helping establish the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. Through Quantum Valley Investments, he has continued backing research and commercialization in quantum technologies.