LinkedIn has a new CEO for the first time in six years.
Daniel Shapero, the company’s chief operating officer since 2021, is stepping into the top job, reporting to Ryan Roslansky, who was elevated last year to executive vice president overseeing both LinkedIn and Microsoft Office.
The changes come as LinkedIn crosses $5 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, putting it on an annual run rate of more than $20 billion. The business social network has been owned by Microsoft since its acquisition by the Seattle-area tech giant for $26.2 billion in 2016.
Roslansky announced the changes Wednesday (in a post on LinkedIn, of course) saying he also asked Mohak Shroff, LinkedIn’s longtime engineering leader, to take on the new role of president of platforms and digital work. Both Shapero and Shroff report to Roslansky.
Roslansky put the moves in the context of the accelerating impact of AI on the labor market.
“Last year when Satya Nadella asked me to lead LinkedIn and Microsoft Office, I knew what he was betting on: AI is going to transform how people work and grow in their careers faster than most people expect,” he wrote. “And LinkedIn and Office would be at the center of that.
As LinkedIn CEO since 2020, Roslansky nearly tripled the company’s revenue and grew the platform to more than 1.3 billion members, 70 million companies, and 42,000 skills, according to the company.
He took on the additional role of EVP of Office last June, adding oversight of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft 365 Copilot as Microsoft pursued its “agentic web” AI strategy.
The new leadership structure is designed to free Roslansky to focus on that broader portfolio. Shapero will run LinkedIn day to day, while Shroff will work across LinkedIn and Microsoft on longer-term technology strategy and innovation.
Shapero joined LinkedIn in 2008 as roughly its 300th employee. He rose through sales, product, and operations before becoming COO in 2021. In his own LinkedIn post, he called his time at the company “one of the most meaningful experiences of my life” and said he would start by “learning and listening.”
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