Lotfi Herzi is the Senior Vice President of Global Platforms Development and responsible for managing the engineering, product management, user experience, and marketing operations teams responsible for GoDaddy’s commercial website, content and reseller platforms, digital marketing technologies (MarTech), customer care’s tools and platform.
Lotfi also led the international expansion of GoDaddy’s products and services before focusing on the Customer & Marketing Platforms.
Prior to joining GoDaddy, Lotfi served as Yahoo’s VP leading the Global Product Development group, in charge of the international delivery of all Yahoo Products and services worldwide. Yahoo’s products, services, and platforms, boasted over 800M users worldwide. During his 18-year tenure at Microsoft, Lotfi worked on a variety of products and roles within several divisions including Windows NT, Windows 95, Internet Explorer, MSN, and Surface (pixelsense). In his last role with Microsoft as General Manager, he led multiple teams driving the Entertainment & Devices Division (Xboxinternationalization and Localization) and delivering company-wide services (Media, Packaging Engineering and Artwork).
Based in the Bay Area, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Lotfi is known for his passion for international markets and technologies and what they can do for customers. He holds a “Diplôme d’Ingénieur” (MS in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics) from ENSEEIHT (Toulouse, France).