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Names Blake Irving CEO — Go Daddy

Domain registrar names its fresh CEO.

Go Daddy has named former Chief Product Officer of Yahoo! and long time Microsoft executive Blake Irving as its fresh CEO effective January 7, 2013. He replaces interim CEO Scott Wagner, who replaced Warren Adelman in July.

Irving will also join the firm’s board of directors.

Irving was most recently at Yahoo, where he was Chief Product Officer. He left that post in April, as stated by his LinkedIn profile.

He was with Microsoft from 1992 to 2007. His last role there was as Corporate Vice President in charge of the Windows Live Platform.

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