When Elissa Murphy was first asked to join the GoDaddy team she thought, “GoDaddy?!” But when she arrived, she says, “I was struck by how different the company culture was from the brand. There was this massive gap. The environment was very embracing of diversity, but who would’ve guessed!”
Now convinced as ever and chief technology officer and executive vice president of cloud platforms, Elissa is on a mission to evolve GoDaddy’s business into one focused on the small-business owner.
Prior to joining GoDaddy, Elissa served as vice president of cloud platforms at Yahoo! Inc., overseeing the world’s largest private Hadoop cluster, a technology essential to massive scale computing that is literally the basis of big data today. Before that she worked in various engineering roles at Microsoft for 13 years designing and building some of the most popular computer security and system utilities. On her path she’s been granted 15 patents, and has more than a dozen other patents pending.