Former Vibrant exec to lead LinkedIn's European sales

Thu May 29 2008, 17:49 PM

LinkedIn is hiring Henry Clifford-Jones, a former executive at Vibrant Media and Intext, to lead its European sales, says Brand Republic. Clifford-Jones will oversee media sales in Europe, where the business social network has more than 5m members - a quarter of its total userbase.

California-based LinkedIn is keen to expand into Europe, where it competes with Germany's multilingual business network, Xing. The latter claims to have 5.7m users and is pursuing an acquisition strategy, buying Turkey's Cember and Hispanic networks eConozco and Neurona for a total of USD22m last year.