LinkedIn on the lookout for Brazil Chief Executive

[caption id="attachment_80627" align="alignleft" width="380" caption="Reuters"][/caption]SAO PAULO: Professional social network LinkedIn said it was seeking a chief executive in Brazil for its Portugese-language service launched last year."When we find a chief executive for Brazil, he will help us open an office," said Danielle Restivo, LinkedIn's communications director for Canada and Brazil, in a telephone interview with Reuters. Restivo said the move by major Brazilian companies Petrobras, Vivo and Itau Unibanco to open pages on the site helped it gain 4 million Brazilian users since April 2010 to reach a total 120 million users globally.Brazil and Mexico are among LinkedIn's fastest growing countries, LinkedIn Chief Executive Jeff Weiner wrote in a blog post in March, when the company was growing at a rate of about 1 million new members every week with more than half of its users outside the United States.Reuters