Jeff Weiner

The brawn and brains behind LinkedIn

Jeff Weiner is the CEO of LinkedIn, the biggest professional network in the world. Under Weiner this company went from a small internet startup to become one of the biggest digital service providers in the web. Currently more than 40 million students and recent college graduates sign up, every year, to become members of LinkedIn and post their CV’s online, in the hope of getting a work offer.

Before joining LinkedIn in 2008, as interim president, Weiner served in various leadership roles at Yahoo for over seven years beginning in 2001, and ending as the Executive Vice President at Yahoo’s Network Division. As EVP of Yahoo, he led a team of over 3,000 employees, managing products reaching over 500 million consumers. While serving Yahoo’s Network Division, he was part of the Search leadership team that directed the acquisition and integration of Inktomi, AltaVista, and FAST as well as the development of Yahoo Search Technology. He also has worked at Warner Bros. as Vice President of Warner Bros. Online, developing its initial business plan, and was an Executive-in-Residence for leading venture capital firms Accel Partners and Greylock Partners.  In 2011 Weiner and Reid Hoffman were the U.S. Overall winners of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award, in recognition to the worldwide success of LinkendIn.

Weiner specializes in general management, product development, business models, strategy, negotiation, financing and deal structure. Under his leadership LinkedIn has expanded its global platform to 23 languages and more than 30 offices around the world, grown its membership base from 33M to more than 414M, and increased its revenue from $78M to over $2.2B in 2014.