{"id":4974,"date":"2012-01-31T05:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T05:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2012-01-31T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T05:30:30","slug":"rim-committee-stresses-importance-of-independent-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/4974\/rim-committee-stresses-importance-of-independent-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"RIM committee stresses importance of independent chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A review of Research In Motions&#8217; leadership structure by a committee of independent directors has concluded that no future chief executive or other employee can be chairperson of the BlackBerry maker.<\/p>\n<p>The panel&#8217;s findings were published on RIM&#8217;s website late on Monday, a day before a Jan 31 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The committee said in its report that it had recommended that RIM should separate the roles of Chair and CEO and amend the board mandate accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>On January 22, the company appointed Barbara Stymiest, who formerly served as a member of Royal Bank of Canada&#8217;s Group Executive, as independent board chair.<\/p>\n<p>Company investors led by Northwest &amp; Ethical Investments LP had demanded that RIM name an independent chairman, a role previously shared by co-Chief Executive Officers Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, to ensure the board acted independently of management.<\/p>\n<p>Lazaridis and Balsillie stepped down just over a week ago but will remain on the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of Research In Motions&#8217; leadership structure by a committee of independent directors has concluded that no future chief executive or other employee can be chairperson of the BlackBerry maker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,161,535,157],"class_list":["post-4974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-blackberry","tag-board","tag-rim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4991,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions\/4991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}