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Reid Hoffman, CEO
Reid was LinkedIn’s founding CEO and is now Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. While CEO, Reid built the company to over 9 million members and profitability. He now drives product and business strategy for LinkedIn.
Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal, where he was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. At PayPal, Hoffman was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in large technology companies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. In addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart and Mozilla Corporation. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in philosophy.
Steve Sordello, CFO
Steve joined LinkedIn from Tivo, Inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer. He previously was CFO for Ask Jeeves until 2005, leading the company through a transition from unprofitable back to a profitable, high-margin company. During his tenure at Ask Jeeves, revenues and earnings grew significantly, and the company’s market value increased from under $40 million to over $2 billion when the company was acquired by IAC/Interactive Corporation in 2005. Steve’s career also includes working in senior finance roles at Adobe Systems and Syntex Corporation. He holds an MBA and B.A. from Santa Clara University.
Jean-Luc Vaillant, CTO
As Chief Technology Officer, Jean-Luc focuses on LinkedIn’s technical architecture. Jean-Luc is one of the co-founders of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Jean-Luc was as Director of Engineering for Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGI) in charge of the integration of video into MSN 6. Jean-Luc, a native of France, also served as Director of Software Development at Spotlife until the company was acquired by Logitech. Before that, Jean-Luc was VP of Development of MatchNet, which acquired SocialNet in May 2001. Jean-Luc has also held engineering management positions at Fujitsu Software Corporation and at the research labs of France Telecom. Jean-Luc holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Marseille and a post-graduate degree in Network Engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST).
Allen Blue, VP Product Strategy
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Adam Nash, Sr. Director of Product
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Patrick Crane, VP Marketing
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Duncan Work, Chief Privacy Officer
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Ellen Levy, VP Corporate Development
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Anil Khatri, VP Engineering
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Sarah Imbach, VP Revenue & Customer Operations
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Kay Luo, Director of Corporate Communications
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Lloyd Taylor, VP Technical Operations
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Dan Nye
LinkedIn’s founder, Reid Hoffman recruited Dan to be Chief Executive Officer from Advent Software, where he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Advent’s Investment Management business line. Dan’s focus is to build the corporate infrastructure needed to keep pace with the company’s rapid growth. Prior to joining Advent in 2002, Dan spent over six years at software maker Intuit, where he served in a number of roles including Vice President and General Manager of the Small Business Division, Vice President and General Manager of the International Division, and Director of Marketing for Small Business Products and Services. During his tenure at Intuit, revenue from small business customers grew from $40 million per year to more than $400 million per year. Dan began his career in brand management at Procter and Gamble. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Hamilton College.
Reid Hoffman
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Mark Kvamme
Mark Kvamme focuses on software and services investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1999, Mark was Chairman of USWeb/CKS and Chairman and CEO of CKS Group prior to the merger with USWeb. Earlier in his career Mark was a Director of International Marketing for Wyse Technology, the President and CEO of International Solutions, and was a founding member of Apple France. Mark has a B.A. in French Economics and Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.
David Sze
David is a General Partner at Greylock and joined the firm in January, 2000. Prior to Greylock, he was Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home. As an early employee at Excite, David also held roles as GM of Excite.com and Vice President of Content and Programming for the Excite Network. Before Excite, he was in product marketing and development at Crystal Dynamics and Electronic Arts. He started his career in management consulting for the Boston Consulting Group and Marakon Associates. He received a B.A. from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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