Long time employee leaving, will retain consulting role.
Sedo Chief Strategy Officer Matt Bentley is leaving the company, Sedo announced today. The move is effective the end of this month.
Bentley joined Sedo in 2002 as Director of International Operations. He was one of the first dozen people at the company and was CEO of Sedo.com (the U.S. subsidiary) for two years.
Bentley was a familiar face at domain conferences, and it will be interesting to see if he hangs around the industry. He also served as a liaison to tangential industries, often writing articles about the value of domain names for non-domain industry publications, speaking on panels, and educating companies about the value of generic domain names.
In less than a decade, Sedo has grown to a dominant force in the domain industry and has a virtual lock on the European domain aftermarket. The company has over 11 million domains listed and sold about $75 million USD in domains last year.
No word yet on if Sedo plans to fill the Chief Strategy Officer position.
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Emil @KING.NET says
Looking forward to learn where he’s heading … a true business man in domain industry.