LinkedIn opens Australian office headed by Cliff Rosenberg

Tim Burrowes

November 19, 2009 8:57

LinkedIn, the social networking site for business professionals, has hired its first local employee – former Yahoo 7 managing director Cliff Rosenberg.

Clifford Rosenberg Rosenberg will oversee the growth of the business in Australian and New Zealand where the site already has more than 1.1m members.

Rosenberg was most recently chairman of Melbourne-based digital and online marketing agency, Clear Light Digital.

LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner, said: “Establishing our first office in Australia allows us to accelerate our efforts to deliver the best user experience and expand our local partnerships.”

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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3 COMMENTS

Fleur Brown 19 Nov 09

great to see LinkedIn get its game on – there’s a big gap for a business platform – now its clearer that Facebook and others won’t fill that space.

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Jason Shoop 19 Nov 09

Don’t deny Facebook’s potential to advance into this market! Facebook has more than 300 Million users whom all have a professional life. This could quickly change to 300 million professionals adding more details to an attached page within their facebook account. Their are 300 million professionals on facebook whom need to use a simular service. One of these companies needs to attain 250 million more users and the other company needs to provide another page to allow 300 Million users to post profiles in a more professional way.

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