Blake J. Irving

Blake J. Irving has served on our board of directors since August 2018. From January 2013 to January 2018, he was the Chief Executive Officer of GoDaddy, Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), a publicly traded domain registrar and web hosting company.

From May 2014 to June 2018, Mr. Irving also served on the board of directors of GoDaddy. From May 2010 to April 2012, Mr. Irving was the Chief Product Officer at Yahoo! Inc. From January 2009 to May 2010, Mr. Irving was a Professor in the M.B.A. program at Pepperdine University. From 1992 to September 2007, Mr. Irving served in various senior and management roles at Microsoft Corporation (NYSE: MSFT), including most recently as Corporate Vice President of the Windows Live Platform Group. Mr. Irving has been a member of the board of directors of Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a provider of design software, since March 2019.

Mr. Irving holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from San Diego State University, and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.