According to a press release by GoDaddy, it is formally announcing as “its new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Scott Wagner, effective immediately.”
“Wagner was a KKR Capstone Member and the leader of KKR’s portfolio operations team in North America, who stepped in as GoDaddy’s interim CEO last summer. ”
“Wagner began working with GoDaddy a short time after KKR, Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures made strategic investments in the company in 2011. ”
“It’s not often you see an operator of Scott’s caliber and experience elect to join the portfolio company he was ‘dropped in’ to assist,” said Blake Irving, who became GoDaddy’s CEO in January. “Scott really kick-started our transformation back in July. He’s helped to develop our strategy and mature our operations — and he shares our passion to change the world for small business. Scott’s decision to join us speaks to both the power of our opportunity at GoDaddy and our people. There’s no better sign of confidence than to join full-time. This absolutely accelerates the phenomenal momentum we’ve created together.”
“It’s pretty simple. I believe in this company and what it can be — this is truly a rare opportunity to build a top-tier Internet company. Blake is an A-plus technology executive, a focused leader and a great guy to boot,” said Scott Wagner. “The overall GoDaddy team is terrific, and we’re building momentum month-to-month. I’m in it for the long haul and energized to be a part of it!”
Since Irving took over as GoDaddy CEO, he has opened offices in Sunnyvale, California and near Seattle, Washington. Irving has also had enormous success with recruiting top-tier tech talent in what is a highly competitive hiring climate. Notable hires include CTO and EVP Platforms Elissa Murphy, who joined from Yahoo! and previously worked at Microsoft; Chief Architect Arnold Blinn, a 17-year Microsoft veteran; SVP International James Carroll, a former executive at Yahoo! and GM at Microsoft; EVP eCommerce Phil Bienert, a former AT&T executive; SVP and GM Hosting Jeff King, who is a 17-year veteran in online commerce, most recently with eBay; SVP Design and User Experience Rick Eames, who worked at both Apple and Microsoft; SVP Vertical Marketing Bob Lund, a former executive with Hewlett Packard; SVP Corporate Development David Popowitz, a former head of Credit Suisse Technology Banking; as well as, VP and GM Site Builder Products Raj Mukherjee, formerly of Google.
Wagner had served KKR for 13 years, working with its portfolio companies as both an advisor and stand-in executive with a particular focus on technology, media and payments. Under his watch as interim CEO from July 2012 to January 2013, GoDaddy launched new products for customers, such as mobile websites and Reseller Hosting and opened an office in Hyderabad, India to serve customers there.
GoDaddy sales hit nearly $1.3 billion last year. The company now serves more than 11 million paying customers worldwide and is the largest Web hosting and domain name registrar on the planet. GoDaddy leverages its award-winning talent and personalized service approach to help small businesses create their digital identity, build websites and harness the power of the Internet.
GoDaddy was honored in the 2012 Fortune magazine’s Best Companies to Work For list and has also been recognized for dozens of other national and local employment awards recently, including Alfred P. Sloan’s Flexible Workplace (6 years) and Valley’s Best Places to Work (9 consecutive years).
GoDaddy has offices throughout Arizona and in Sunnyvale, Calif.; Denver, Colo.; Kirkland/Bellevue, Wash.; Washington, D.C. and Hiawatha, Iowa; as well as The Netherlands, India and Singapore.””
Hello MHB,
GoDaddy is flying in the face of Marketing Analytics with its big bet on gTLD adoption. We think this big gamble will put him into debt, and possibly takeover material. Good luck GoDaddy you are going to need it. JAS 5/8/13
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Jeff
You know that 32% of all domain name registrations through Godaddy.com are NOT .com’s
68% are .com’s but 32% are not and that is before the new gTLD which will have much higher profit margains
R. E. = ” You know that 32% of all domain name registrations through Godaddy.com are NOT .com’s
68% are .com’s but 32% are not and that is before the new gTLD which will have much higher profit margains ”
We know all this. Makes no difference, all white noise and Market saturation Obsolescence of ALL .Whatevers will cause consumer confusion to flock to .COM Profit Centers. JAS 5/8/13
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
.com profit centers don’t matter to godaddy, domain registration and sale of services does
Hello MHB,
You obviously do not see the pit fall connections here?
When Marketing Marketing tools you first have to be assured that consumers will use or buy them. This is absolutely in question by very qualified Marketing Experts other than ourselves.
Only fools bring products to market that are questionably not in demand.
Forget about Registrars its the consumers KISS
OCCAMS RAZOR
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Hello MHB,
Investing in gTLD phenomonon is much, much riskier than investing
in the FaceBook IPO. JAS 5/8/13
Gratefully Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
@ METAL TIGER or whoever you are, own your dot com before you use the name guy…
It doesn’t matter if gtld fail, or succeed godaddy gets paid on registrations, drops, and resales etc… this cycle is a profit center for them, and the hosting, email, etc… is another angle.
Godaddy is getting to corporate, losing the easy going domainers buddy feel, just to white collar, with new management, and them trying to increase margins, sad but true.
Godaady does not care about helping New Businesses to succeed in their Online Businesses, godaddy gets paid on registrations, drops, and resales etc… this cycle is a profit center for them.
Get as many suckers to buy and reregister as possible in mass numbers is their only goal. They sell valueless registrations with no hope of giving the End-User an edge. This is their goal and only goal.
People don’t care how much you PROFIT, until they know how much you care.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Jeff
every business is in business to make money selling their goods and or service
Some of those products can even kill you like cigarettes, so again and as usually I don’t see you point
The point is that Mike has a very high tolerance for pain.
hahahahahaaha exactly.
its hilarious watching domainers yell “we dont need these” like every product sold to us is something we require.
well tomorrow is friday night, i think ill go out and about.. maybe stop at the local bar and grab some bread and water, since you know – thats all we need and nobody would every buy things that arnt necessary.
yeah ill believe a marketing expert that can only market things people “need”
LOL!
GoDaddy hosting accounts suffering widespread downtimes today?