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GoDaddy Hires Lauren Antonoff As Head Of Digital Identity

By TechTaffy Desk

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GoDaddy has named Lauren Antonoff as senior vice president of Digital Identity. She will head GoDaddy’s Digital Identity division, which is focused on enabling small businesses to create and manage all aspects of their digital identity.

Ms. Antonoff joins GoDaddy from Microsoft, where she was director of program management with the SharePoint team since 2011. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a dozen patents. She will be based out of the company’s San Francisco office.

[Image courtesy: GoDaddy]

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