Recently, Apple announced a major leadership change where the company’s CEO Tim Cook will step down in September and will be replaced by John Ternus, who is currently serving as senior VP of hardware engineering at Apple. Days after Apple, job-searching platform LinkedIn has also announced a leadership change. Ryan Roslansky has stepped down from the role of LinkedIn’s CEO and is replaced by Dan Shapero, who was serving as the company’s COO. He joined LinkedIn as a general manager in 2008 after running consulting projects at Bain & Company. Unlike Apple, LinkedIn’s leadership change is effective immediately.
“Today, I’m taking on the role as CEO of LinkedIn. I joined LinkedIn in May 2008 as employee 300ish, and it’s easy to say that my time at the company has been one of the most meaningful experiences of my life,” Shapero said in a LinkedIn post.
“Dan has led sales, marketing, and product across the most important parts of this business,” Roslansky wrote in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday announcing the move. “He knows our members, our customers, and carries the mission in a way that’s genuinely rare,” he added.
Roslansky’s journey at LinkedIn
Ryan Roslansky came to LinkedIn from Glam Media in 2009 to be product chief, and in 2020 he took over the group from Jeff Weiner, when the platform had 700 million members and roughly $8 billion in annual revenue. Roslansky was one of the first hires of Jeff Weiner.
Under his leadership, the company now has 1.3 billion members and more than $17 billion in revenue.
Roslansky will retain his position as executive vice president at Microsoft, and LinkedIn’s new CEO Dan Shapero will now directly report to him.
“The power of economic opportunity and the promise of LinkedIn has never been more important than it is today as the world is transformed by AI and professionals everywhere must transition along with it,” Shapero wrote in the post.
During his tenure at LinkedIn, Roslansky transformed the platform from a glorified jobs board to something which is closer to a full-blown social media platform. Meanwhile, LinkedIn parent company Microsoft is adding artificial intelligence features across the platform.
