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Aug, 2016 : Leadership Team for GoDaddy Gains a New CFO
📅 - Recently, GoDaddy announced Ray Winborne as the chief financial officer. Former CFO, Scott Wagner has been promoted to President and COO of GoDaddy.
Winborne was the CFO of First Data in Atlanta and part of the senior financial leadership team at AT&T and Delta Airlines before joining GoDaddy.
Wagner will be responsible for the customer growth operations and revenue of GoDaddy and had held the dual role of COO/CFO since 2013. Both Winborne and Wagner will report to Blake Irving, CEO of GoDaddy.
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