Governance

As CEO of GoDaddy, Aman Bhutani brings over 20 years of experience in technical, management, and leadership roles ushering brands into new eras of innovation and global growth.

Prior to joining GoDaddy in 2019, Aman spent nearly a decade at Expedia Inc., where he served as Brand Expedia Group president from 2015 to 2019 and chief technology officer and SVP of worldwide engineering from 2010 to 2015. Prior to joining Expedia, Aman served as senior vice president at JP Morgan Chase.

In 2018, Aman was elected to the board of directors of The New York Times Company serving the Audit and Finance committees.

He earned his MBA from Lancaster University in Lancashire, England, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Delhi University. Aman and his family live in Seattle, Washington.

As GoDaddy’s CFO, Ray manages the company’s finance functions including financial planning and analysis, controllership, tax, treasury, procurement, investor relations and global real estate.

Ray brings more than 20 years of experience leading finance teams in global companies with significant operating scale and complexity. Before joining GoDaddy in 2016, Ray was Chief Financial Officer of First Data, a global leader in commerce-enabling technology and solutions. He played a catalyst role influencing the direction of the company with respect to product pricing, wholesale channel engagement, the card issuing business and the need for transformational change in the small merchant business segment. Ray was also pivotal in the strengthening of the company’s balance sheet, refinancing nearly $24 billion in debt. Prior to First Data, he served in senior financial leadership roles at Delta Air Lines and AT&T. Ray began his professional career at PwC in Atlanta.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Troy University. Away from the office, Ray enjoys time with his wife Stefanie and two boys—both Tigers (Mizzou & Auburn) and loves to ski, golf, boat and hike.

Nima Kelly is the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Go Daddy, where she oversees mergers & acquisitions, commercial litigation, customer-facing and third-party transactional agreements, corporate governance and regulatory affairs, internal audit, global policy and transformation. She joined GoDaddy in 2002 and has served various roles within the organization shepherding the company’s evolution as a public company, from its 2015 initial public offering through several follow-on offerings and numerous acquisitions, including its acquisition of Host Europe Group in 2017.

Nima has extensive experience in developing the Human Resources function, establishing the backbone operations for companies in the 1990s. She practiced labor and employment law in New York City for nearly a decade, where she represented a multi-employer construction association, and was responsible for the daily administration and enforcement of collective bargaining agreements with trade unions. Nima earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.A. from Gettysburg College where she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. If she weren’t a lawyer, Nima would either be the bat boy for the New York Yankees, a stage hand at the Metropolitan Opera, or a daily dog walker for rescue dogs.

Karen Tillman is the SVP and Chief Communications Officer at GoDaddy, and has more than two decades of experience managing corporate communications programs for global technology companies. Prior to joining GoDaddy, Karen was the Chief Communications Officer of Cisco, which she joined in 2010 and helped lead the reputational turnaround in 2011 - 2012. Before Cisco, Karen served as VP of Global Corporate Communications at Oracle, where she worked for 12 years.

Karen joined GoDaddy in 2013 and was charged with leading a brand and reputational overhaul to better reflect the company’s mission of providing technology to small businesses. Through the management of public relations, social media, community engagement, executive communication, corporate social responsibility, and employee communications, the company has significantly changed its reputation in the market.

Karen studied at the University of California, Irvine and holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Comparative Literature.

As head of GoDaddy’s people and culture, Monica is responsible for talent and performance management, total rewards, learning and development, hiring, inclusion and partnership with our people and leaders worldwide. Since joining GoDaddy in 2013, Monica has implemented several initiatives including an updated performance review process in partnership with Stanford to reduce unconscious bias, while reinforcing great performance and a distinct culture. Additionally, she’s been instrumental in leveling and career structure, pay parity and an employee feedback engine to improve both GoDaddy’s culture and company.

Prior to GoDaddy, Monica worked at Microsoft for 17 years where she worked as a trusted business partner, helped create the HR Mergers and Acquisitions practice and ran the top of the house internal assessment and development program aimed at growing top talent for future challenges, including President and CEO successors for the company. She also ran her own HR coaching and consulting firm.

Monica holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology and Communications, with a focus on Women’s Studies from Washington State University.

Charles is responsible for ensuring GoDaddy engineering delivers a more powerful, integrated experience to customers through the adoption of key technologies. He leads the company’s global platform and infrastructure organization.

Before joining GoDaddy in 2013, Charles was responsible for ad serving and personalization platforms at Yahoo! Prior to Yahoo!, he held engineering leadership positions at Metaweb Technologies, Verisign and WR Hambrecht + Co.

Charles studied at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität and holds a Bachelors of Arts degree from Northwestern University.

David directs GoDaddy’s corporate development activities, including acquiring and partnering with companies that can enhance GoDaddy customer and product experiences.

Prior to GoDaddy, David was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse where he led the Technology Investment Banking Group. Over 18 years, David advised some of the leading technology companies on strategic and financial matters.

Since joining GoDaddy in 2012, David and his team have completed over 30 acquisitions and partnerships with companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, PayPal, Square, Stripe and many others.

David holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Brown University. David lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife, three active boys and a mini Australian shepherd.

As President of GoDaddy Experiences, Lauren, in partnership with our CMO, operates our US business focused on helping independent entrepreneurs succeed online. Lauren is responsible for product design and development for our Websites + Marketing suite and our line of do-it-for-you services, both designed to guide customers to look great, be everywhere that matters, and sell more.

Prior to GoDaddy, Lauren spent eighteen years at Microsoft, where she was most recently Director of Program Management for SharePoint, leading the effort to make the SharePoint a tool that people love to use to get work done. Her leadership was instrumental in building one of the most successful products and businesses at Microsoft, and helping SharePoint navigate the shift to the cloud.

While at Microsoft, she founded the Step Up Program, designed to increase the number of women in senior management roles by helping women become stronger candidates for these roles. Lauren studied Rhetoric and Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley.

Fara Howard joins us most recently from Amazon Fashion where she led Marketing for the US business.

Prior to Amazon, Fara was the Global Head of Marketing at Vans and had the honor of bringing their brand to life for their 50th Anniversary. Her career also includes over a decade at Dell, including leading North America Consumer and Small Business Marketing and establishing Dell’s in-house digital agency. She started her marketing career at Gatorade, which taught her the importance of intimately knowing your customer. She remains steadfast that marketing’s primary role is to understand and advocate for the customer.

Fara received her MBA at the University of Michigan—Go Blue!

She met her husband there as well so Ann Arbor holds a special place in her heart. Outside of the office, Fara is an avid athlete and loves doing anything outdoors, particularly if it involves her husband and three ridiculously active boys, ages 9, 10 and 11.

As President of GoDaddy’s International Business, James manages and drives all operations for GoDaddy’s international P&L; including strategic planning, marketing, localization and the development of global technologies.

Prior to joining GoDaddy in 2013, James was Senior Vice President at Yahoo! running the company's global R&D centers in China, India and the Middle East. He also oversaw Yahoo’s content, social and membership platforms as well as the international delivery of all Yahoo! products and services.

Before Yahoo, James spent 13 years at Microsoft as General Manager managing the MSN international team and later, the Windows and Windows Live international teams. He also spent 5 years at Claris/Apple as a project leader working on the full suite of Apple and Claris products on Mac and Windows managing engineering, Internationalization and localization efforts.

As GoDaddy’s President of the Partners Business, Patrick Pulvermuller is responsible for the strategic direction helping Everyday Entrepreneurs who serve others including GoDaddy PROs, resellers, agencies, and PRO focused brands. Additionally, Patrick is responsible for the company’s Global Hosting, Productivity, and Security product offerings.

Prior to GoDaddy, Patrick spent several years as CEO of Host Europe and was the driving force behind the company’s organic growth and several acquisitions. In 2013 Patrick took on the role as CEO of HEG (Host Europe Group) with overseeing notable brands such as Host Europe, DomainFactory, Heart Internet, 123reg and more. Patrick came to GoDaddy when the company acquired HEG in 2017.

Patrick holds an MBA in Operations and Finance from The Open University. Patrick is also a Member of the Board at PlusServer, and in his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his 5 kids and skiing.

As head of GoDaddy’s Customer Care team, Auguste leads our 7,000 strong force of seasoned guides, our relentless advocates for our customer’s success and supporters of their journey from their first idea to online success. GoDaddy’s Care team spans the globe as we follow our customers in their language, delivering knowledgeable and passionate Care. Prior to running our Care team, Auguste has served as our Chief People Officer and our Chief Information Officer leading key functions of our company for over 10 years.

As President of Domain Registrars and Investors Business, Roger leads our team that focuses on serving these customer segments, and is responsible for GoDaddy’s Domains operations. Prior to this role, Roger was the Regional President and SVP of Asia Pacific for GoDaddy, on point to build a market-leading position in the APAC region by delivering compelling end-to-end experiences supported by world-class go to market activities.

Prior to GoDaddy, Roger spent 6 years at Yahoo where he last served as VP of Product Management and led PM and Design teams for Media, Search, eCommerce, Mobile, Partnerships, and Custom Solutions in Asia. Before Yahoo, Roger held product leadership position in the consumer laptop group at Dell.

Roger holds a B.A. degree, double-major in Computer Science and Economics, from University of California at Berkeley.