Aman Bhutani
Aman Bhutani is the chief executive officer of GoDaddyGoDaddyGoDaddy is a domain registrar and web services company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, whose Class A common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GDDY. At the end of 2025 it had about 20.4 million customers and about 81 million domains under management.Open the full entry, the domain registration and web hosting company, a post he has held since September 2019. He previously spent nearly a decade at Expedia, where he served as chief technology officer and as president of Brand Expedia Group, and he has been a director of The New York Times Company since 2018.
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Early Life, Education and Early Career
Bhutani grew up in New Delhi, India. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Delhi University and an MBA from Lancaster University in Lancashire, England.[1][2]
Early in his career he was a senior engineer at the consultancy Connexions Technologies and then founder and technical lead of the startup Critical Sense, Inc.; he later held senior technology and e-commerce roles at J.P. Morgan Chase and Washington Mutual.[1]
2010–2015Chief Technology Officer at Expedia
Bhutani spent nearly a decade at Expedia, holding leadership roles in its worldwide engineering team that culminated in the post of chief technology officer from 2010 to 2015.[2]
2015–2019President of Brand Expedia Group
September 21, 2018Joining the Board of The New York Times Company
On September 21, 2018, the board of The New York Times Company elected Bhutani, then 42 and president of Brand Expedia Group, as a director and named him to its Audit Committee and its Technology & Innovation Committee.[4][1]
Then-chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. said in the announcement that Bhutani had “extensive technological and international business experience.”[1]
In a 2024 interview with TIMETIMETIME is an American newsmagazine and media brand founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, which published its first issue on March 3, 1923; it is headquartered in New York and known for its Person of the Year selection and the TIME100 list. Since 2018 it has been personally owned by Marc and Lynne Benioff; its current Chief Executive Officer is Jessica Sibley, and its Editor-in-Chief is Sam Jacobs.Open the full entry, Bhutani recalled that his previous boss had sat on that board and, on leaving, recommended him among others for the opening; he also said the board’s responsibility is the business, not the newsroom.[5]
August–September 2019: Becoming CEO of GoDaddy
On August 1, 2019, GoDaddy announced that its board had appointed Bhutani chief executive officer effective September 4, 2019, succeeding Scott Wagner, who stepped down.[3]
In addition to serving as chief executive, Bhutani sits on GoDaddy’s board of directors.[2]
September 2024On GoDaddy’s AI Approach and Leadership
In an interview with TIME published in September 2024, Bhutani said GoDaddy had 21 million paying customers and made approximately $200 per customer per year.[5]
He said GoDaddy’s products use AI models through a single set of interfaces that can reach external models such as OpenAIOpenAIOpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and product organization founded in 2015 that develops the GPT model series, ChatGPT, Codex and a developer API, and conducts research on image, speech, video and intelligent agents. After its 2025 restructuring, the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation continues to control the for-profit OpenAI Group PBC. Its growth has involved large-scale fundraising and compute partnerships, and has also been accompanied by controversies over governance, copyright, privacy and AI safety.Open the full entry, Microsoft and Gemini as well as the company’s own model running in AWS. “We are not in the business of buying GPUs and creating the large language models ourselves,” he said.[5]
Bhutani named “transparency, self awareness, discipline, humility, hunger, and responsibility” as norms that guide his work, and said that in recruiting, “the number one thing we look for is hunger.”[5]
He also recalled seeking advice from Expedia board member Skip Battle while he was a president at Expedia, and said that in many of his early New York Times board meetings he spoke little and listened a lot.[5]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
GoDaddy: Official website: https://www.godaddy.com/ (opens in a new window).[2]
The New York Times Company: Official website: https://www.nytco.com/ (opens in a new window).[6]
X: Public account: https://x.com/sh0kunin (opens in a new window).[7]
Sources
- New York Times welcomes Aman Bhutani to its Board of Directors (opens in a new window)
- Our Team (opens in a new window)
- GoDaddy Appoints Aman Bhutani as CEO; Scott Wagner Steps Down for Health Reasons (opens in a new window)
- Form 8-K (opens in a new window)
- How GoDaddy’s CEO Strives to Be Better Every Day (opens in a new window)
- Board of Directors (opens in a new window)
- Aman Bhutani (@sh0kunin) / X (opens in a new window)