Awards & Recognition
★Immigrant Learning Center Hall of Fame recognition
★Listed in Marquis Who's Who Internet executives
★Recognition as LinkedIn Co-founder and CTO
Notable Facts
→Co-founder and former CTO of LinkedIn (2002-2007)
→One of five founding team members alongside Reid Hoffman, Eric Ly, Allen Blue, and Konstantin Guericke
→French immigrant who came to Silicon Valley in 1996
→Previously held senior engineering roles at Logitech, Spotlife, MatchNet/SocialNet, and Fujitsu
→Helped build LinkedIn from 4,500 members to multi-million user platform
→Currently serves as advisor to multiple companies including Acklio and XtraLife
→Holds M.S. in Computer Science from University of Marseille and post-graduate degree from ENST
→Was part of the team that built 'the best dating matching system' at SocialNet/Match.com
→LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion in 2016