As part of the on-going reorganisation exercise at BlackBerry, the company’s chief operating officer, Kristian Tear and the chief marketing officer, Frank Boulben will step down from their positions.

Further, James Yersh, senior vice-president, controller BlackBerry will take over from Brian Bidulka as the company’s chief financial officer. However, Bidulka will continue to serve the company till end-2013 as a special advisor to the chief executive officer, John Chen.