Firas Alkhatib leads Sales Strategy & Operations for LinkedIn’s Global Clients business – where he oversees a global team that provides strategic planning and operations support to the global enterprise sales team in LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions line of business. He has also spent four years at Facebook, where he led Sales Planning & Operations for the Global Accounts and Agency businesses and set up the media upfronts deal desk. Prior to Facebook, he has worked in consulting (McKinsey), government (where he helped build the Congressional Affairs team at the UAE Embassy in Washington, DC) and private equity (Cerberus, Istithmar).
Firas has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA in Economics (with honors) from Harvard College