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December 11, 2012 09:55 pm GMT

GoDaddy Hires Former Yahoo Exec Blake Irving As CEO


GoDaddy has a new daddy.

The domain registration and hosting service announced Tuesday that Blake Irving, a former exec at Microsoft and Yahoo, will take over as the company's CEO on Jan. 7. The company is currently headed by Scott Wagner, an executive at investment firm KKR, who took over as interim CEO when Warren Adelman decided to step down this summer after serving just 8 months in the role.

Irving resigned as the chief product officer at Yahoo in April of this year, reportedly due to differences with then CEO Scott Thompson and a massive restructuring at the company that resulted in thousands of layoffs and changes to the product division. Before joining Yahoo, he spent more than…
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