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Awards & Recognition

★Named 'One of ten German top stars in Silicon Valley' by Focus magazine

★Named 'One of the Most Influential People in VRML' by Site Magazine (1996)

★Recognized as 'one of the best known persons in German Internet start-up history'

Notable Facts

→Co-founder of LinkedIn alongside Reid Hoffman in 2003

→Led LinkedIn's marketing from launch to 6 million members and profitability as VP of Marketing

→LinkedIn went public in 2011 for $4 billion and was acquired by Microsoft for $26 billion in 2016

→Born September 19, 1967 in Hamburg, Germany, raised in Zeven

→Stanford University engineering graduate (B.S. and M.S.)

→CEO of jaxtr (social communications startup with 10+ million users, acquired by SabSe Technologies)

→Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital focusing on European startups

→Board member of Doximity (largest professional network for US physicians)

→Stanford University mentor and guest lecturer for student entrepreneurs

→Board member of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)

→Active on Twitter with 2,159 followers and LinkedIn with 4,657+ followers

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