Richard Lynch Net Worth
Abigail Rogers
Updated on March 21, 2026
Richard Lynch biography
Richard J. Lynch serves as Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Lynch, 71, has served as a director of the Company since February 2013. Mr. Lynch has a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Lowell Technological Institute (now University of Massachusetts) and post-graduate executive education from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. Since September 2011, Mr. Lynch has been President of FB Associates, LLC, which provides advisory and consulting services at the intersection of technology, marketing and business operations. Prior to his current role, Mr. Lynch served as Executive Vice-President & Chief Technology Officer of Verizon Communications and Verizon Wireless. He is a Life Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and currently serves as Chairman of Ribbon Communications and as a director of VectoIQ Acquisition Corp., iconectiv and Cohere Technologies, Inc. Mr. Lynch was a director of Ruckus Wireless Inc. from 2012 to 2016 and has also served on a number of professional organizations including the GSM Association, the CDMA Development Group, the Federal Communications Commission Technical Advisory Committee and the Communications Security Reliability and Interoperability Council. Mr. Lynch has been honored with the President’s Award by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association and has also been inducted into the Wireless History Foundation’s Hall of Fame.
What is the salary of Richard Lynch?
As the Independent Director of BlackBerry Ltd, the total compensation of Richard Lynch at BlackBerry Ltd is $203,681. There are 14 executives at BlackBerry Ltd getting paid more, with Steven Capelli having the highest compensation of $5,019,410.