Management and Directors:
Executive Officers
Jeffrey Weiner has served as our Chief Executive Officer since June 2009 and as a member of our board of directors since July 2009. Mr. Weiner served as our interim President from December 2008 to June 2009. Prior to LinkedIn, Mr. Weiner was an Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners and Accel Partners, both venture capital firms, from September 2008 to June 2009, where he focused on advising the leadership teams of the firms’ consumer technology portfolio companies and worked closely with the partners to evaluate new investment opportunities. Previously, Mr. Weiner held several key leadership roles at Yahoo! Inc., one of the world’s largest digital media companies, from May 2001 to June 2008, including most recently as an Executive Vice President where he was responsible for many of the company’s consumer-facing and industry-leading products. In addition to LinkedIn, Mr. Weiner serves on the board of directors for DonorsChoose.org and Malaria No More. He holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Weiner was selected to serve on our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Chief Executive Officer and his extensive background in the Internet industry.
Steven Sordello has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since January 2011 and served as our Chief Financial Officer from July 2007 to January 2011. Prior to LinkedIn, Mr. Sordello served as Chief Financial Officer of two Nasdaq publicly traded companies. He was Chief Financial Officer of TiVo, Inc., a manufacturer of digital video recorders, from August 2006 to July 2007, where he was part of the management team that helped lead TiVo to its first quarter of profitability. Prior to TiVo, Mr. Sordello served in several roles, including as Chief Financial Officer at Ask Jeeves, Inc., an Internet search engine company, from May 1999 to October 2005 when it was acquired by IAC/Interactive Corporation. At Ask Jeeves, he was part of the management team that lead the company through a transition from unprofitable to a high-growth, high-margin company. Mr. Sordello has also worked in senior finance roles at Adobe Systems Incorporated, a leading software company, and Syntex Corporation, a pharmaceuticals company (acquired by Roche Pharmaceuticals). He holds an M.B.A and a B.S. in Business from Santa Clara University.
Michael Gamson has served as our Senior Vice President, Global Sales since January 2011. Prior to that, Mr. Gamson was our Vice President of Sales for our Hiring Solutions business from June 2008 to January 2011, and our General Manager of LinkedIn Research Network from September 2007 to June 2008. Prior to LinkedIn, Mr. Gamson served in several roles, including most recently as Director of Product Marketing from April 2004 to August 2007, at Advent Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise software for investment managers, from January 1999 until August 2007. Mr. Gamson holds a B.A. in Comparative Religions and Fine Arts from Amherst College.
David Henke has served as our Senior Vice President, Operations and Engineering since January 2011, and served as our Vice President, Operations and Engineering from November 2009 to January 2011. Prior to LinkedIn, Mr. Henke was Senior Vice President, Engineering at Yahoo! Inc., from July 2005 to June 2009, responsible for Engineering/Operations at Yahoo! Search Marketing and the Production Operations Infrastructure for the entire company. Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Henke ran Engineering/Operations for AltaVista Company, an Internet search engine company, from 1998 to 2002. Prior to AltaVista, he served in development and management roles for Silicon Graphics, Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance computing solutions, from 1990 to 1998. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Dipchand “Deep” Nishar has served as our Senior Vice President, Products and User Experience since January 2011, and served as our Vice President, Products from January 2009 until January 2011. Prior to LinkedIn, Mr. Nishar served in several roles, including most recently as the Senior Director of Products for the Asia-Pacific region, at Google Inc., an internet search company, from August 2003 to January 2009. He was also the Founder and Vice President of Products at Patkai Networks, a service oriented architecture software company. Mr. Nishar holds an M.B.A. with highest honors (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School, a M.SEE from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a B.Tech with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology.
Erika Rottenberg has served as our Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since July 2008. Prior to LinkedIn, Ms. Rottenberg served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for SumTotal Systems, Inc., a talent development enterprise software company, from March 2004 to July 2008, and served as a consultant to SumTotal through December 2008. Prior to SumTotal, Ms. Rottenberg served in several roles, including most recently as Vice President, Strategic Development and General Counsel, at Creative Labs, Inc., a computer peripheral and digital entertainment product company. Ms. Rottenberg began her legal career with the Silicon Valley-based law firm of Cooley LLP. Ms. Rottenberg also serves on the board of directors of Silicon Valley Law Foundation. She holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and a B.S. in Special and Elementary Education from State University of New York at Geneseo.
Board of Directors
A. George “Skip” Battle has served on our board of directors since February 2010 and was appointed as our lead independent director in December 2010. During the last five years, Mr. Battle has been serving on the boards of directors of various public and private companies. From January 2004 to July 2005, Mr. Battle served as Executive Chairman of Ask Jeeves, Inc., and from December 2000 to January 2004 he served as Chief Executive Officer of Ask Jeeves. From December 1995 to January 2006, Mr. Battle served as a member of the board of directors for PeopleSoft, Inc., an enterprise software company, and from August 1996 to June 2002 he served as a member of the board of directors for Barra, Inc., a software company. From 1968 until his retirement in 1995, Mr. Battle served in management roles at Arthur Andersen LLP and then Andersen Consulting LLP (now Accenture), where he became worldwide managing partner of market development and a member of the firm’s executive committee. Mr. Battle is currently the chairman of the board of directors for Fair Isaac Corporation, an analytic products company, and is also a member of the board of directors for Netflix, Inc., an online video rental company, Expedia, Inc., an online travel reservations provider, OpenTable, Inc., an online network connecting reservation-taking restaurants and people who dine at those restaurants, Advent Software, Inc., a software and consulting company, and the Masters Select family of mutual funds. He holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College. Mr. Battle was selected to serve on our board of directors due to his extensive background in public accounting and auditing, as well as his experience in the Internet industry. Mr. Battle qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, guidelines. In addition, his current service on other public company boards of directors provides us with important perspectives on corporate governance matters.
Reid Hoffman is one of our co-founders and has served on our board of directors since March 2003 and was appointed as the Chair of our board of directors in December 2010. He has also been a Partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm, since November 2009. Previously, he served as our Chief Executive Officer from March 2003 to February 2007 and from December 2008 to June 2009. Mr. Hoffman also served as our President, Products from February 2007 to December 2008, and as our Executive Chair from June 2009 to November 2009. Prior to LinkedIn, Mr. Hoffman was executive vice president of PayPal Inc., an online payment company, from January 2000 to October 2002. Mr. Hoffman serves on the board of directors for SixApart Ltd., Kiva.org, Zynga Game Network Inc. and Mozilla Corporation. Mr. Hoffman holds a M.A. in Philosophy from Oxford University and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. Mr. Hoffman was selected to serve on our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as one of our founders and as one of our largest stockholders, as well as his extensive experience with technology companies.
Leslie Kilgore has served on our board of directors since March 2010. Ms. Kilgore has served as the Chief Marketing Officer (formerly Vice President of Marketing) of Netflix, Inc. since March 2000. From February 1999 to March 2000, Ms. Kilgore served as Director of Marketing for Amazon.com, Inc., an Internet retailer. Ms. Kilgore served as a Brand Manager for The Procter & Gamble Company, a manufacturer and marketer of consumer products, from August 1992 to February 1999. Ms. Kilgore holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Kilgore was selected to serve on our board of directors due to her extensive experience in marketing and consumer products industry.
Stanley J. Meresman has served on our board of directors since October 2010. During the last five years, Mr. Meresman has been serving on the boards of directors of various public and private companies, including service as chair of the audit committee for some of these companies. Mr. Meresman was a Venture Partner with Technology Crossover Ventures, a private equity firm, from January 2004 through December 2004 and was General Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Technology Crossover Ventures from November 2001 to December 2003. During the four years prior to joining Technology Crossover Ventures, Mr. Meresman was a private investor and board member and advisor to several technology companies. From May 1989 to May 1997, Mr. Meresman was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Silicon Graphics, Inc. Prior to Silicon Graphics, he was Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Cypress Semiconductor. He serves as a director of Meru Networks, Inc. and Riverbed Technology, Inc. Mr. Meresman holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Meresman was selected to serve as a director on our board of directors due to his background as chair of the audit committee of other public companies and his financial and accounting expertise from his prior extensive experience as chief financial officer of two publicly traded corporations. Mr. Meresman qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under SEC guidelines. In addition, his current service on other public company boards of directors provides us with important perspectives on corporate governance matters. Mr. Meresman has served both as chair of the audit committee and chief financial officer of several public companies.
Michael J. Moritz has served on our board of directors since January 2011. Mr. Moritz has been a Managing Member of Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm, since 1986. He currently serves as a director for Green Dot Corporation, a provider of general purpose reloadable pre-paid debit cards, Kayak Software Corporation, an online provider of travel information, and GameFly, Inc., an online video game rental service company. Mr. Moritz previously served as a director of a variety of companies, including Flextronics Ltd., Google Inc., PayPal, Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and Zappos.com, Inc. Mr. Moritz holds an M.A. in Modern History from Christ Church, Oxford. Mr. Moritz was selected to serve as a director on our board of directors due to his extensive background in and experience with the venture capital industry, providing guidance and counsel to a wide variety of Internet and technology companies and service on the boards of directors of a range of public and private companies.
David Sze has served on our board of directors since September 2004. Mr. Sze is a Partner at Greylock Partners, which he joined in 2000. Prior to Greylock Partners, Mr. Sze was Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home. As an early employee at Excite, Mr. Sze also held roles as General Manager of Excite.com and Vice President of Content and Programming for the Excite Network. Prior to Excite, he was in product marketing and development at Electronic Arts, Inc. and Crystal Dynamics, respectively. He started his career in management consulting for Marakon Associates and The Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Sze holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Yale University. Mr. Sze was selected to serve as a director on our board of directors due to his extensive background with Internet and technology companies.
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