GoTo Group, Inc. announced that chief product and technology officer Paddy Srinivasan has been promoted to chief executive. The promotion of chief product and technology officer Paddy Srinivasan to the top job at GoTo comes amid a broader effort at the Boston-based maker of connectivity software to promote and capitalize on the company's rebranding. Srinivasan takes over for Mike Kohlsdorf, a board member who took on the CEO role in January, replacing Bill Wagner.

(Kohlsdorf, who has been based in Atlanta, is president of Francisco Partners Consulting, which works closely with GoTo investor Francisco Partners Management.)Srinivasan has almost a decade of experience with LogMeIn and now GoTo. He originally joined LogMeIn in 2013, when it was run by Michael Simon and based in Woburn. The firm relocated to Boston's Fort Point soon thereafter, and then Simon's No.

2, Wagner, became CEO. Srinivisan helped build Xively, the Internet-of-Things business that LogMeIn eventually sold to Google. In 2019, he left to work on Amazon's Alexa business but returned in mid-2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic began and remote work proliferated.

LogMeIn had been sold to private equity firms Francisco Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital earlier that year.