He set the company’s product strategy and oversaw product development, user experience, business development and customer operations. Most recently, Roslansky held the role of global head of product where he oversaw all teams responsible for building and creating the next generation of LinkedIn products and experiences. Under his leadership, LinkedIn has also seen record levels of engagement on the platform and accelerated growth across the company. He led the evolution of LinkedIn’s products into a single, holistic, global ecosystem of more than 690 million members, 50 million companies, 90,000 schools and 36,000 skills. Roslansky joined the company in May 2009 and has since held leadership roles in every part of LinkedIn’s business. Once the acquisition is complete, LinkedIn will be a part of Microsoft's Commercial Cloud business unit, which includes crucial and fast-growing internet-based business products like Dynamics CRM and the Azure cloud platform.Ryan Roslansky is the CEO of LinkedIn, the world’s largest and most powerful network of professionals. In fact, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood says on that conference call that the combination of LinkedIn and Microsoft assets will actually help the company blow away an important financial milestone for the company. "Of course we'll learn from the past," Nadella says. "Our executional handicap is a lot lower than any of the others we've talked about in the past," Nadella says.įurthermore, Nadella says that unlike Nokia or aQuantive, Microsoft plans to let LinkedIn operate independently as a wholly owned subsidiary, like Instagram and WhatsApp are to Facebook. In 2015, just about a year ago, Microsoft took a $7.6 billion writedown on the legendary flameout of the Nokia acquisition.īut on a conference call with investors today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that LinkedIn fits in to the company's existing business way more smoothly than those past mega-deals. In 2012, Microsoft took a massive $6.2 billion writedown on the $6.3 billion acquisition of aQuantive. Microsoft may be excited about its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, but it has a spotty history with gigantic acquisitions. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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