Jeff is Founding Partner of Next Play Ventures and the executive chairman of LinkedIn. Prior to becoming executive chairman in June 2020, Jeff was the CEO of LinkedIn. During his 11-year tenure, LinkedIn grew its membership base from 33M to more than 690M, increased its revenue from $78M to over $7.9B and expanded the team from 338 employees to over 16,000.
Currently, Jeff resides on the board of directors for Donorschoose.org and the advisory council for the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula. He also co-founded The Compassion Project, a non-profit initiative whose mission is to ensure compassion is taught in every elementary school in the US. Jeff is also a founding LP and serves on the investment committee of Concrete Rose, an early-stage investment fund investing in diverse founders, start-ups serving underserved communities and/or building diverse teams.
Previously, he served on the board of Intuit for over ten years and The Paley Center for Media.