LinkedIn Corporation announced that Patrick Crane has been named Vice President of Marketing.

Most recently, Patrick was Vice President of Marketing for the Yahoo! Inc. Network Division. He was responsible for taking Yahoo! Answers to market in 2005 and for marketing the product to its position today as the #1 Q&A site on the web. Patrick also led the marketing of Yahoo! Mail, helping it become the world’s #1 web mail provider in 2006 as measured by comScore.

“I am thrilled to join LinkedIn and to play my part in building the world’s #1 professional network,” said Patrick Crane, Vice President of Marketing, LinkedIn. “We are just beginning to see the impact of connecting the world’s career-minded community, as LinkedIn starts to help millions of people realize their professional goals.”

LinkedIn is the Internet’s premier professional network, where over 11 million professionals find customers, jobs, employees, investors, business partners, service providers, industry experts and opportunities through their network of business relationships.

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