Daniel Shapero, CEO of LinkedIn, and Ryan Roslansky, EVP of LinkedIn and Microsoft Office.
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microsoft has named Dan Shapero as the new CEO of its LinkedIn division, replacing Ryan Rozlansky, who has run the subsidiary since 2020 and took on additional responsibilities in Microsoft’s Office Productivity Group last year. Changes take effect immediately.
“Dan has led sales, marketing and product in the most important parts of this business,” Roslansky said in a LinkedIn post Wednesday announcing the move. “He knows our members and customers well and carries the mission in a truly unusual way.”
Mr. Rozlansky will retain his position as Microsoft’s executive vice president. He joined LinkedIn from Glam Media in 2009 as product chief, taking over the group from Jeff Weiner six years ago. Under Roslansky, membership grew from about 700 million to 1.3 billion.
LinkedIn’s fourth-quarter revenue rose 11% year-over-year as the business social network added members and sought to generate more revenue from each member. Growth has slowed since Microsoft acquired the company for $27 billion in 2016. Meta is more than 10 times the size of LinkedIn by revenue and reported nearly 24% growth in the fourth quarter.
While Microsoft is hard at work adding artificial intelligence capabilities to its Office products and LinkedIn, it is also spending heavily on data center infrastructure to provide AI computing power to its cloud clients.
“The power of economic opportunity and the promise of LinkedIn have never been more important than they are today, as the world is transformed by AI and every professional must shift with it,” Chaplo, who joined LinkedIn as general manager in 2008 after running consulting projects at Bain & Company, wrote in a post on LinkedIn. For the past five years, Mr. Shapero served as Chief Operating Officer of LinkedIn.
The revamp comes weeks after Microsoft’s top Office leader Rajesh Jha announced plans to retire. Mr. Jha has been engaged in succession negotiations with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and said he feels good about the future, as Mr. Rozlansky and other executives from the Office group will report directly to Mr. Nadella.
Earlier this year, gaming leader Phil Spencer left Microsoft after 38 years, and Charlie Bell, the company’s head of cybersecurity products, became an individual contributor.
Mohak Shroff, LinkedIn’s senior vice president of engineering, will become Microsoft’s president of platforms and digital operations, reporting to Roslansky. Shroff said LinkedIn vice presidents Eran Berger and Raghu Hiremagaluru will run the division’s engineering functions.
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