Jeff Weiner
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Jeffrey "Jeff" Weiner, born in New York City, New York, 1970, is an American businessman.
He is the CEO (CEO) of LinkedIn, a business-related social networking portal.
He became Interim President of LinkedIn on December 15, 2008.
Weiner was instrumental in LinkedIn's takeover by Microsoft for $26 billion in June 2016.
Early life and education
Weiner earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.
Career
Weiner served in various leadership roles at Yahoo! for over seven years beginning in 2001, most recently as the Executive Vice President of 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 has worked at Warner Bros. as Vice President of Warner Bros. Online, developing its initial business plan. He was an Executive-in-Residence for leading venture capital firms Accel and Greylock Partners.
In 2009, Weiner implemented the first BizOps team at LinkedIn.
In 2011, Weiner and Reid Hoffman were the U.S. Overall winners of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award
In 2014, Weiner was recognized by LinkedIn employees via Glassdoor's annual survey as among "the top 10 CEOs at U.S. Tech Companies".
In 2016, Weiner received media attention for donating his $14 million stock bonus to the pool for LinkedIn employees following a drop in share price.
On February 5, 2020, Weiner announced he will step down as CEO of LinkedIn and become executive chairman in order to focus on closing the network gap and realizing LinkedIn's vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. He named Ryan Roslansky as his replacement.