Profile: LinkedIn's Sharon McCooey

‘Relationships are the glue that binds people’ says Sharon McCooey

Sharon McCooey, senior director of international operations at LinkedIn Ireland Picture: Maura Hickey

Sharon McCooey is senior director of international operations and site leader of LinkedIn in Ireland. Founded in 2002, LinkedIn is headquartered in California, and employs 900 people in Dublin, having increased its Irish workforce by 300 over the past 12 months.

Prior to joining LinkedIn, McCooey ran her own consulting business and was previously director of the shared services centre and general manager at Business Objects, the business intelligence software company.

McCooey is ...