Sean Silcoff Business Reporter, Globe and Mail

Sean Silcoff is a business writer with The Globe & Mail, Canada's National Newspaper and co-author of Losing the Signal, the internationally acclaimed best-selling book about the rise and fall of BlackBerry. During his 21-year career in journalism and communications, he has covered just about every area of business, from agriculture to the credit crisis, toys to airplane manufacturing and steel to startups. He previously worked for the National Post as well as Canadian Business Magazine, where he oversaw the publication of the inaugural edition of the Rich 100, the magazine’s annual survey of Canada’s wealthiest people. Sean is a two-time winner of the National Newspaper Award, the Montreal Economic Institute Economic Education Prize and the Hon. Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Canadian Journalists. Sean has a business degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. and a journalism degree from Carleton University in Ottawa. He lives in Chelsea, Qc. with his wife and three children.
 
About Losing the Signal:

Losing the Signal is the internationally acclaimed, best-selling story about the rise and fall of smartphone pioneer Research in Motion (now BlackBerry) under the leadership of long-time co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. The book, co-written by veteran Canadian business journalists Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, grew out of a major feature investigation published in September 2013 in the Globe & Mail about the downfall of the Canadian company. The piece won a National Newspaper Award and was named one of the best business stories of the year by Longform.  Losing the Signal has been hailed as the “best business book I have read for years” by Australian Financial Review columnist Tony Boyd and described as “a good old-fashioned insider’s business narrative, the kind we don’t see enough of these days, and it should scare the pants off most CEOs” by Barbarians at the Gate co-author Bryan Burrough. Losing the Signal was shortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and was named one of best business books of 2015 by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BloombergView (Mohamed El-Erian) Globe & Mail, CIO Magazine, Strategy + Business Magazine, Irish Times, Irish Examiner and Vancouver Sun.

“This is first-class reporting that reads like a juicy novel, with one amazing story after another. A terrific book.” - Howard Green, broadcaster and author of Banking on America

“[McNish and Silcoff have] produced a tragedy worthy of Shakespeare's attention... Even as you read, with a kind of shiver of schadenfreude, about BlackBerry's vicissitudes, there's plenty of food for thought here about what this means on a much broader stage.” ―Yahoo! Finance