New BlackBerry chairman and interim chief executive John Chen has a quite a large pay package. In addition to a $1 million base salary and $2 million performance bonus, the Waterloo, Ontario, company will give him 13 million BlackBerry restricted share units, worth $85 million based on the current stock price, that will vest over five years.The former Sybase CEO signed on last week, when the smartphone maker abandoned plans to sell itself. The details were disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on the strategy shift. If Chen fails to turn around BlackBerry, he could net far less. If fired he will receive his salary for the rest of that year, and an additional payout $6 million - two times his salary and base bonus - plus benefits for 18 months.
BlackBerry CEO takes home a whole lot of moolah (Image credit: Reuters)
The interim CEO, in subsequent interviews, has said that it is too soon for him to say if BlackBerry will do away with it's traditional BB10 in favor of the world's most popular OS, Android. The executive also spoke about the kind of permanent CEO he was looking for to run the company. He also hinted at some of his plans for BlackBerry in the next few years, but refused to go into details about any of them.
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