LinkedIn gets new CEO
- Microsoft named Daniel Shapero LinkedIn's CEO while Ryan Roslansky moves to broader Microsoft AI responsibilities. (cnbc.com) - Shapero, LinkedIn’s former chief operating officer, takes over the CEO role effective immediately. (techcrunch.com) - The leadership shift ties LinkedIn more closely to Microsoft's AI strategy for professional discovery and hiring. (gurufocus.com)
Microsoft has replaced LinkedIn’s chief executive, naming longtime executive Daniel Shapero to run the professional network effective immediately. (cnbc.com) Shapero had been LinkedIn’s chief operating officer and joined the company in 2008. Ryan Roslansky, who had been chief executive since 2020, will stay at Microsoft in an expanded executive vice president role. (techcrunch.com) CNBC reported Shapero will report to Roslansky, not directly to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella. Reuters reported the change on April 22 as Microsoft positioned LinkedIn for what it called an “AI-driven” phase. (cnbc.com) (usnews.com) LinkedIn now sits inside a broader Microsoft workplace software stack that includes Office, and Roslansky’s new remit ties those businesses more closely together. GeekWire reported Microsoft also elevated Mohak Shroff to president of platforms and digital work as it reorganizes leadership around artificial intelligence. (geekwire.com) The timing comes with LinkedIn at a larger scale than when Roslansky took over six years ago. Microsoft said in its 2025 annual report that LinkedIn had reached 1.2 billion members and was bringing artificial intelligence agents into sales, hiring, and learning workflows. (microsoft.com) The business is also bigger financially. Microsoft’s January 28, 2026 earnings release said LinkedIn passed $5 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, putting the unit on roughly a $20 billion annual pace. (microsoft.com) That makes the leadership swap less about a turnaround than about who steers LinkedIn’s next product cycle. Reuters said Shapero had overseen major sales, marketing, and product groups before this promotion, giving Microsoft an operator from inside the company rather than an outside hire. (usnews.com) LinkedIn has been part of Microsoft since the company agreed to buy it for $26.2 billion in June 2016. A decade later, Microsoft is keeping the network under tighter executive overlap with Office and artificial intelligence work instead of separating it further from the rest of the company. (microsoft.com)
