LinkedIn Partners with Leading Expert Network DeMatteo Monness

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., and NEW YORK, N.Y., June 30, 2009 – LinkedIn, the world’s leading professional network, today announced the selection of DeMatteo Monness LLC (DM) as LinkedIn’s preferred partner in the expert network industry. The partnership provides DM with a proprietary set of search tools and promotional services designed to allow DM’s Research team to search for and recruit industry experts more effectively, and to enhance the overall depth and breadth of the DM Consultant Network. Further, the partnership will enable DM to deliver unique insights to its clients by executing large scale surveys of global professionals through the LinkedIn Surveys offering.

The agreement provides LinkedIn with a leading partner in the growing expert network industry, and creates increased opportunity for LinkedIn members to be rewarded for sharing their professional expertise. LinkedIn currently has over 42 million members representing over 200 countries and 140 industries, including executives from all Fortune 500 companies. DeMatteo Monness is a boutique primary research firm and full-service broker-dealer which operates one of the first and largest expert network businesses. DM has more than 200 investment fund clients worldwide using the DM Consultant Network and DM Guest Speaker Series. DM has research offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., London, and Shanghai.

"We are excited to partner with DeMatteo Monness to bring relevant consulting opportunities to our members who are interested in sharing their professional expertise,” says Dan Shapero, Director of Enterprise Solutions at LinkedIn.

Expert networks are large communities of industry professionals who occasionally are paid to provide opinion and color on a particular subject, event, product marketplace or industry. More than 20 expert networks operate globally. Their primary clientele are investment funds and corporations which utilize experts as part of their fundamental research efforts.

"This partnership extends our reach and awareness across the LinkedIn network, allowing DM to address the needs of our clients more powerfully and efficiently,” says David Shook, Managing Partner and Director of Research for DeMatteo Monness.

The DM Consultant Network provides investment professionals with access to thousands of industry contacts globally across different supply chains, markets, and product categories. The hallmark of DM’s Consultant Network is ‘custom recruiting’, in which DM’s research team recruits new industry contacts on a demand-driven basis for proprietary client research projects.

DM’s Consultant Network covers every major market region. Industry coverage includes: Technology, Healthcare, Media & Telecom, Internet, Energy & Utilities, Financials, Industrials & Transportation, Consumer Discretionary/ Staples, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Travel & Leisure, Manufacturing & Construction, Materials & Commodities, Legal & Regulatory, and Macroeconomics.

LinkedIn also is partnering with DM on the creation of a new DM Surveys product for its customers. LinkedIn will enable DM to generate proprietary surveys of LinkedIn members whose expertise specifically matches a DM client’s interests. These surveys can be highly customized to meet a client’s needs. In addition, DM will be producing its own surveys for groups of clients based on anticipated demand.

For more client or consultant information regarding the DeMatteo Monness/LinkedIn Preferred Partnership, please contact DM.

About LinkedIn
LinkedIn takes your personal business network online, giving you access to people, jobs and opportunities like never before. Built upon trusted connections and relationships, LinkedIn has established the world’s largest and most powerful professional network. Currently, over 42 million professionals are on LinkedIn, representing all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as a wide range of household names in technology, financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, fashion, and numerous other industries. LinkedIn is backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, the European Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Goldman Sachs, The McGraw-Hill Companies, and SAP Ventures.

About DeMatteo Monness
DeMatteo Monness LLC (DM) is a boutique primary research firm and full service broker-dealer serving the institutional investment fund community. The firm provides its investor client base with access to primary sources of market intelligence through its industry leading Consultant Network. The firm also leverages its global network of experts to drive its Guest Speaker Series, featuring prominent industry executives and consultants for group events, individual meetings, and investor field trips. Our exclusive research services and uniquely tailored, custom approach differentiates our product in the expert network marketplace. The firm's business model is focused on serving a select number of investment funds globally, creating the scarcity value our clients seek.

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