Immersion has appointed Todd Conroy as senior vice president of Research and Development. In this new executive position based in Immersion’s Montreal office, Mr. Conroy is responsible for the company’s product engineering and research programs, the company said in a statement.

Mr. Todd has held several executive leadership roles throughout his 30-year career. He was previously, vice president of Systems Engineering at BlackBerry. He has also held engineering leadership roles at Freescale Semiconductor, Motorola, Zebra Technologies and LogiSense.

Mr. Todd holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology as well as an MBA from Northwestern University.

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