LinkedIn names COO Daniel Shapero as its new CEO, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who will retain his position as EVP at Microsoft
Microsoft has tapped Dan Shapero to be the new CEO of its LinkedIn division, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who has run the subsidiary since 2020 and last year took …
Context & Ripple Effects
Roslansky’s remit had already expanded beyond LinkedIn: in 2025 Microsoft put him in charge of its Office group while he remained LinkedIn CEO. Related coverage then places him at the head of a new Work Experiences Group that includes Teams.
The succession also continues LinkedIn’s pattern of promoting from within: Roslansky took over from Jeff Weiner after serving as product SVP, and now COO Daniel Shapero moves into the CEO role.
First-order effects
- Shapero takes operational leadership of LinkedIn, while Roslansky relinquishes the subsidiary CEO title but remains a Microsoft EVP.
- Microsoft separates day-to-day leadership of LinkedIn from Roslansky’s broader workplace-product responsibilities.
Second-order effects
- LinkedIn’s product and commercial teams gain a CEO whose mandate is focused on the subsidiary, while Roslansky can coordinate Office, Teams and related work-experience efforts at the parent level.
- The handoff makes tighter alignment between LinkedIn’s professional-network products and Microsoft’s workplace software easier to pursue, without requiring one executive to run both organizations directly.
Third-order effects
- If Microsoft sustains this structure, LinkedIn may become more explicitly managed as part of a broader work-experience portfolio rather than as a standalone leadership silo.
- The change points to a model in which large platform owners use internal executive rotations to connect adjacent products while retaining distinct operating leaders; the practical degree of integration remains uncertain.
The trend: Microsoft is consolidating leadership around workplace experiences while preserving dedicated management for major consumer and business platforms such as LinkedIn.