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Notes:
As at March 3, 2012, the above directors and executive officers of the Company (excluding the above directors and officers that have
resigned or retired) beneficially owned, or controlled or directed, directly or indirectly, approximately 30 million common shares of
the Company representing approximately 6% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company. In addition, as of such
date, Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (“Fairfax”) and certain of its wholly-owned or controlled subsidiaries beneficially
owned approximately 26.8 million common shares of the Company (the “Fairfax Shares”) representing approximately 5% of the
issued and outstanding common shares of the Company. Prem Watsa, a director of the Company, is the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Fairfax and may be deemed under applicable U.S. securities laws to beneficially own the Fairfax Shares by
virtue of his position at Fairfax.
During the past five years, each of the directors and executive officers of the Company has been engaged in their current principal
occupation as specified above except: Mr. Thorsten Heins who prior to January 2012 was Chief Operating Officer, Product & Sales
and formerly was Senior Vice President, Handheld Business Unit of the Company, previous to that he was Chief Technology Officer
of Siemens’ Communications Division; Mr. Jim Balsillie who prior to 2012 was Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chair of the
Company; Mr. Mike Lazaridis who prior to 2012 was President, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chair of the Company;
Ms. Barbara Stymiest who prior to 2011 was a member of the Group Executive, Royal Bank of Canada; Mr. John Wetmore who was
Vice President, Contact Centre Development of IBM Americas and formerly President and Chief Executive Officer of IBM Canada;
Mr. Antonio Viana-Baptista who prior to January of 2008 was CEO, Telefonica Espana, and prior to that Chairman and CEO,
Telefonica Moviles, S.A.; Ms. Kotchka who prior to 2009 was Vice President, Design Innovation & Strategy, Proctor & Gamble;
Ms. Robin Bienfait who prior to January 2007 was Senior Vice President of AT&T Global Network Operations, Network Security
and Disaster Recovery, previously Chief Compliance Officer, EH&S and prior to that was Vice President Service Assurance, E-
Mtce & IP/Data Systems at AT&T Labs; Mr. Brian Bidulka who prior to December 2009 was Chief Accounting Officer of the
Company and formerly was Vice President, Corporate Controller of the Company, previous to that he was Vice President, Corporate
Finance at Molson Inc., and formerly Vice President, Finance-Operations at Molson Canada; Mr. David Yach who prior to January
2008 was Senior Vice President, Software and Vice President, Software of the Company; Mr. Jim Rowan who prior to July 2011 was
Chief Operating Officer, Manufacturing & Global Supply Chain and formerly was Senior Vice President, Global Manufacturing &
Supply Chain of the Company, previous to that he was Executive Vice President of World Wide Operations for Celestica; and
Ms. Karima Bawa who prior to December 2010 was Senior Vice-President, Legal of the Company.
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Member of the Com
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Member of the Innovation Committee.
Chair of the Board of Directors
On March 29, 2012, the Company announced the resignations of Jim Balsillie from the Board, and Jim Rowan as Chief
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