Thursday, May 9, 2013

GoDaddy Shifts Wagner To COO, CFO

Scottsdale, Arizona-based GoDaddy, the online domain registrar and Internet services firm, said Wednesday that it has named Scott Wagner as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Wagner joins from GoDaddy's new owners, having most recently been a part of KKR's portfolio operations team; Wagner had been serving as interim CEO of GoDaddy since last summer. GoDaddy took a big strategic investment from KKR, Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures back in 2011. GoDaddy's CEO is now Blake Irving, who joined in January; Irving is the prior Chief Product Officer at Yahoo.