RIM Executives Depart as BlackBerry Maker Weighs Strategy

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Research In Motion Ltd. said two executives, including Senior Vice President Alan Brenner, are departing as the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone considers strategic options that include a sale of the company.

Brenner, senior vice president of the BlackBerry platform, will depart after a transition period, and Alistair Mitchell, a vice president for the BlackBerry instant-messaging service, has already left, Tenille Kennedy, a spokeswoman for Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM, wrote yesterday in an e-mailed statement.