linkedin corp - a (LNKD:New York)

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Mr. Reid G. Hoffman is a Managing Partner and Partner at Greylock Partners. Mr. Hoffman joined Greylock on November 2, 2009. He is Co-Founder of LinkedIn Corporation and serves as its Executive Chairman. He serves as an Advisor of Globant, Inc., TogetherVille, Inc and ProFounder Financial, Inc. He serves as a Consultant at New Cycle Capital, LLC. He is an angel investor in numerous influential Internet companies, including Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Ning, and Zynga. ... He served as Senior Adviser of Grassroots Enterprise, Inc. Mr. Hoffman served as the Founding Chief Executive Officer at LinkedIn Corporation from 2003 to 2007. Previously, Mr. Hoffman served as the Chairman and President of Products at LinkedIn Corporation since 007. He served as Senior Vice President of Business Development and International at Confinity, Inc. He served as an Executive Vice President of PayPal, Inc. since March 2002. At PayPal, Mr. Hoffman was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. He joined PayPal, Inc. in January 2000 and served as an Executive Vice President of Business Development. During his tenure at PayPal, Mr. Hoffman was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard, and Wells Fargo. He is an angel investor in Ironport, Friendster, and Nanosolar. Mr. Hoffman Co-founded SocialNet, Inc., in August 1997, and served in various capacities from August 1997 to January 2000. Previously, he served as the Chairman at Grassroots Enterprise, Inc. Mr. Hoffman worked in product development for Fujitsu Software Corporation from February 1996 to July 1997. Previously, he served in human interface design of Apple Computer and Apple Inc. He serves as Member of Advisory Board at Spride, Inc. He serves as Board Observer of Gowalla Inc. He has been a Director of Grassroots Enterprise, Inc. since September 2007 and serves as its Member of Advisory Board. He serves as a Director of Winster, Inc. and Swipely Inc. He serves as a Member of the Board of Advisors of Tagged, Inc. He has been a Director of Startup America Partnership, LLC since August 23, 2011. Mr. Hoffman serves as a Director of Wrapp AB, Edmodo LLC, Kiva Microfunds, Vendio Services, Inc., Airbnb, Inc. shopkick Inc., Six Apart, Ltd., Mobshop, Mozilla Corporation, Grassroots.com, Kiva.org, JumpStart Technologies, Talk To The Future, TreasureGames, and the International Media Project and on the Board of Advisors for EZCab and WeAttract. He has been a Director of Zynga, Inc., since January 2008. He served as a Member of the Board of Advisors of Buysight, Inc. He served as a Director of Confinity, Inc. from December 1998 to January 2000. He served as a Director of Tagged, Inc. He serves as a Member of the board of directors at Bohemian Wrappsody AB. Mr. Hoffman also serves as Member of the board of Directors of Endeavor. He served as a Member of Advisory Board at iGroup Network, Inc. He served as a Member of the board of directors at PayPal, Inc. He won the Dinkelspiel Award and a Marshall Scholarship while at Stanford. In 2010, he was the recipient of an SD Forum Visionary Award and named a Henry Crown Fellow by The Aspen Institute and an Endeavor Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011. Mr. Hoffman received an M.S. in Philosophy from Oxford University in 1993, where he was a Marshall Scholar and graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. in Cognitive Science and Symbolic Systems in 1990.

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