A man walks by a Blackberry sign at the Blackberry campus in WaterlooBy way of Laura Noonan LONDON (Reuters) – The intervening time chief govt just lately appointed to revamp mobile phone maker BlackBerry is in it “for the lengthy haul”, the corporate’s largest shareholder Prem Watsa instructed Reuters. Watsa earlier this yr sought companions in a $four.7 billion bid to take BlackBerry private. But his company, Fairfax Financial, then opted for a lead position in a $1 billion note offering to supply the Canadian firm with money to fund a turnaround. John Chen, a turnaround expert with Sybase within the late Nineteen Nineties, was once introduced in as intervening time CEO.