- LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned professional social network, announced Ryan Roslansky is succeeding Jeff Weiner as CEO. These are the details about the management shift.
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned professional social network with 675 million users, announced a management shift. This news comes on the heels of LinkedIn revealing trailing twelve-month revenues of $7.5 billion. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner will be shifting to the role of Executive Chairman. Weiner had worked as CEO of LinkedIn for the last eleven years.
Ryan Roslansky, Senior Vice President of Product at LinkedIn, will be promoted to the CEO position as of June 1, 2020. Roslansky will be reporting directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and will join the senior leadership team at Microsoft just like Weiner did.
Weiner joined LinkedIn in December 2008. And under Weiner’s leadership, the company grew from 338 employees to more than 16,000 in over 30 offices around the world. And LinkedIn’s membership base has increased from 33 million to nearly 675 million members. Plus Weiner’s revenue increased from $78 million to over $7.5 billion. Plus Weiner guided LinkedIn through the IPO in 2011 and the acquisition by Microsoft in 2016.
“In his more than 10 years at LinkedIn, Ryan has played leadership roles in every part of LinkedIn’s business — developing LinkedIn’s Influencer program and publishing platform, building our Marketing Solutions business, championing the acquisition of Lynda.com, and co-developing our prioritization framework for the Microsoft integration,” said LinkedIn in a statement. “Most recently, as our global head of product, Ryan has been a key architect in reshaping LinkedIn’s 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. Tomer Cohen, currently Vice President of LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, will become LinkedIn’s head of product effective June 1, 2020.”
LinkedIn originally started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman. And LinkedIn’s founders are Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly, and Jean-Luc Vaillant.
