Jeffrey Weiner

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Mr. Jeffrey Weiner is the Founder and serves as Partner at Next Play Ventures. He serves as Executive Chairman at LinkedIn. Mr. Weiner serves on an Investment Advisory Committee. He served as an Advisor at From Here Ventures. He serves as an Advisor at Acryl Data. He is also a Co-Owner of Seesaw Learning. He serves as a Member of the Investment Advisory Committee at Westbound Equity Partners. He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer at LinkedIn. He serves as a Board Member and member of the Compensation, Organizational Development Committee, and Nominating and Governance Committee at Intuit. He is a Board Member of DonorsChoose.org. He served as the Board Member at EVERFI. He joined the company in December 2008, and under his leadership, LinkedIn has rapidly expanded its global platform to 24 languages and more than 30 offices around the world, grown its membership base to more than 380 million members, and increased its revenue to $2.2 billion in 2014. Before LinkedIn, Mr. Weiner was an executive in residence at Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, where he advised the firms' consumer technology portfolio companies and evaluated new investment opportunities. Previously, he served as executive vice president of Yahoo!'s Network Division, a business that generated $3 billion in annual revenue with more than 3,000 employees and was responsible for many of the company's consumer-facing and industry-leading products. Prior to joining Yahoo! in 2001, Mr. Weiner spent more than six years at Warner Bros., where he helped oversee the company's online efforts and developed the initial business plan for Warner Bros. Online in 1994. In addition to LinkedIn, he serves on the board of directors for Intuit Inc. and Malaria No More. He holds a BS in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.