A veteran insider will steer LinkedIn's next phase as Microsoft reshuffles leadership across its productivity suite. Dan Shapero takes over immediately as CEO of the professional network, replacing Ryan Roslansky who ran the subsidiary since 2020.
Shapero joined LinkedIn in 2008 and served as chief operating officer for five years before this promotion. His appointment comes weeks after Microsoft's top-ranking Office leader Rajesh Jha announced retirement plans, triggering broader executive changes.
Roslansky retains his position as executive vice president at Microsoft after recently taking on additional responsibility in the Office productivity group. He came to LinkedIn from Glam Media in 2009 as product chief and took over from Jeff Weiner six years ago.
Under Roslansky's tenure, membership grew to 1.3 billion from about 700 million while revenue nearly tripled. The platform now counts 70 million companies and tracks 42,000 skills across its user base.
LinkedIn crossed $5 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time earlier this year, achieving an annual earnings rate of $20 billion. Fourth-quarter revenue increased 11% year over year as the network added members and sought higher monetization per user.
Growth has slowed since Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $27 billion in 2016, with Meta remaining more than ten times larger by revenue despite similar social networking functions.
"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,"
Shapero wrote in a LinkedIn post. He previously ran consulting projects at Bain & Company before joining the professional network.
Roslansky praised his successor's qualifications in his own announcement post. "Dan has led sales, marketing, and product across the most important parts of this business," he wrote.
"He knows our members, our customers, and carries the mission in a way that's genuinely rare."
Microsoft has been adding artificial intelligence features across Office products and LinkedIn while investing heavily in data center infrastructure for cloud AI computing.
Mohak Shroff, LinkedIn's senior vice president of engineering, will become Microsoft's president of platform and digital work reporting to Roslansky. Shroff said vice presidents Erran Berger and Raghu Hiremagalur will take charge of the unit's engineering function.
The leadership transition follows other recent Microsoft executive moves including gaming leader Phil Spencer's departure earlier this year after 38 years and cybersecurity products head Charlie Bell becoming an individual contributor.
