Blake Irving is the American former Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of GoDaddy.

[citation needed] Irving played the drums from the age of seven,[3] and was an artist while attending the Newbury Park High School[4] in Southern California.

[5] He has served as a professor at Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business and Management,[6] and has been named a distinguished alumnus.

[15] In 1996, he was the group manager for the Internet Platform and Tools Division,[16] and he would later be named Corporate Vice President.

[17] As head of the Windows Live Platform, Irving managed a $1 billion global R&D budget and oversaw development teams in the US, India, China and Europe.

[44] Irving was an executive producer of Code: Debugging the Gender Gap, a 2015 documentary about the lack of women and people of color in computer science.