Ryan Roslansky, presently global head of product for the platform will be the new CEO
Jeff Weiner will exit CEO’s position at LinkedIn effective June 1, 2020. He will step into the role of Executive Chairman. Post Jeff’s exit, Ryan Roslansky, presently global head of product for the platform will be the new CEO, with a direct reporting to Satya Nadella. The announcement was made by Jeff Weiner in his LinkedIn post today ( Wednesday, 5th Feb, 2020), titled – It’s Time for My Next Play and LinkedIn’s New CEO.
Jeff writes – “The last eleven years have been the greatest professional experience of my life and none of it would have been possible without you, our members. Thank you for everything you’ve done to help manifest our vision to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Despite the scale and impact we’ve achieved thus far, it still feels like in many respects we’re just getting started. I can’t wait to see where our team and this community take it from here.“
About Ryan, he mentioned – “Ryan was the first hire I made after joining LinkedIn in December 2008. He has been essential to the company’s success ever since: helping to build our Marketing Solutions business, developing LinkedIn’s Influencer program and publishing platform, overseeing the home page and Feed, running all of our consumer products, championing the acquisition of Lynda.com, and co-developing our prioritization framework for the Microsoft integration. Most recently, as our global head of product, Ryan has been a key architect in reshaping LinkedIn’s increasingly complex consumer and enterprise applications into a single, holistic, global ecosystem. In doing so, he has helped lead one of the best performing stretches in the company’s history.“
Jeff Weiner had joined as CEO for LinkedIn in December 2008. Since then the company has grown to a network of more than 645M ( from 33M in 2008), and increased its revenue from $78M to over $6.8B. The company is now over 15,000 strong. Prior to LinkedIn, Jeff has held a variety of roles in media, online services, and had stints with leading VC firms. He has been with Warner Brothers, Yahoo, Greylock, Accel Partners. He is also the co-founder of an early stage investment firm Next Play Ventures, and is a member on the Board of Directors for Intuit.
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