Chief Exective Officer, LinkedIn
Reid is currently CEO
and co-founder of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice
President of PayPal. At PayPal, Reid was in charge of all business
relationships: business development, corporate development,
international, government relations, and banking/payments
infrastructure. During his tenure at PayPal, Hoffman was instrumental
to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with
Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management
roles in large technology companies, including Fujitsu Software
Corporation and Apple. Currently, in addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves
on the Board of Directors for SixApart and Mozilla Corporation. Reid
graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. in Cognitive Science and from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in philosophy.
