FILE PHOTO: Dan Shapero, the incoming CEO of LinkedIn and then head of sales for LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions unit, poses for a photo at LinkedIn headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., on June 27, 2013.
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Microsoft has tapped Daniel Shapero to be the new CEO of its LinkedIn division, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who has run the subsidiary since 2020 and last year took on additional responsibility in Microsoft’s Office productivity group.
“Dan has led sales, marketing, and product across the most important parts of this business,” Roslansky wrote in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday announcing the change. “He knows our members, our customers, and carries the mission in a way that’s genuinely rare.”
Roslansky will retain his position as executive vice president at Microsoft.
LinkedIn’s revenue grew 11% year over year in the latest quarter, as the business social network has added members and sought to generate more money from each of them. Growth has slowed since Microsoft acquired the company for around $27 billion in 2016.
The parent company has been busy adding artificial intelligence features across its Office products and in LinkedIn, while also spending heavily on data center infrastructure to provide AI computing power to cloud clients.
“The power of economic opportunity and the promise of LinkedIn has never been more important than it is today as the world is transformed by AI and professionals everywhere must transition along with it,” Shapero, who joined LinkedIn as a general manager in 2008 after running consulting projects at Bain & Co., wrote in a LinkedIn post.
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