Wayne Thayer

Wayne Thayer is the general manager of security products at Go Daddy, responsible for Go Daddy’s rapidly growing SSL business. Thayer joined Go Daddy in 2003 to launch their Certificate Authority. Since then, he has held a number of leadership roles including VP of IT operations, VP of product development and CTO. He represents Go Daddy at the CA/Browser Forum, the standards body that defined Extended Validation SSL. He came to Go Daddy from Move.com, where he was director of application development. He holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, both from Penn State University.