BlackBerry’s Chen Hires SAP Colleague Johnson for Sales Job
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BlackBerry Ltd. named Eric Johnson to its top sales job, hiring one of Chief Executive Officer John Chen’s former colleagues to help the smartphone maker regain the confidence of customers.
Johnson is coming to BlackBerry from SAP AG, where he was a senior vice president in charge of the company’s global database and technology, according to a statement today. Johnson and Chen both joined SAP when it acquired their previous company, Sybase Inc., in 2010.