BlackBerry Hire Sony Ericsson Former

Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has employed Daffo Louks, a former Sony Ericsson government, to go its loss-making devices business, employment needing a significant dose of accomplishment to get back firms and shoppers lured away by larger rivals.

Ron Louks took the position of president of devices and rising solutions, BlackBerry aforesaid in a very statement on Monday.

It aforesaid Louks was connexion from OpenNMS cluster, wherever he had served as chief military officer. He had antecedently worked as head of strategy for HTC's yankee unit and as head of technology at Sony Ericsson, a venture later bought out by Sony.

BlackBerry was a smartphone pioneer, however has lost most of the market to Apple's iPhone and devices exploitation Google's golem technology. The Canadian company has since shifted its focus from the buyer market to serving businesses, governments and different massive organizations.