# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thorsten-heins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:56:31.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thorsten-heins"
name: "Thorsten Heins"
slug: "thorsten-heins"
description: "Thorsten Heins is a German-Canadian businessman and the former chief executive officer (CEO) of BlackBerry. He stepped down as CEO of BlackBerry and was replaced by John Chen on November 4, 2013. Heins later was the CEO of Powermat Technologies."
tagline: "German Canadian businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ThorstenHeins-February2013-edit03.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1957-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.17
  momentum:             8.303814713896458
  historical:           5.163398666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Thorsten Heins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "ثورستن هاينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsten_Heins"
    title: "Thorsten Heins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thorsten_Heins"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fat.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsten_Heins"
    title: "Thorsten Heins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thorsten_Heins"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105330"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump