Dipchand Deep Nishar pockets VP of Product Strategy has reportedly grown richer by $50 million following LinkedIn's successful IPO.

He owns 498,958 shares which are worth $49,895,800 if the stock continues to trade at $100 per share.

Nishar, descrtibed as on of the brightest Google engineers, quit the search engine giant in 2008 to join LinkedIn. He had held a range of jobs at Google, as WSJ put it. That included "building the back-end infrastructure for Google's monetization systems, starting its mobile initiatives and, more recently, overseeing product development for the Asia-Pacific region."