After the death of David Goldberg, a week ago, SurveyMonkey have decided to appoint Zander Lurie, an executive at GoPro, to lead the billion dollar organization for the next three months.
The sudden death of David Goldberg, shocked the tech world, as one of the most liked and high profile personalities in Silicon Valley departed. David was known as the heart and soul of the tech and media industry because of his compassion and kindness towards everyone.
Now as the 2 $ billion dollar company looks to move on to try and find a replacement for David, the board has decided to appoint Zander Lurie as the interim CEO, who was also a close friend of the recently departed David Goldberg. Lurie who is already a member of the board of SurveyMonkey, will take additional responsibilities as the company lead in a time of crisis. “I am a resource to SurveyMonkey during this transition” Lurie mentioned in a written statement.
Zurie Lander will be expected to carry out his responsibilities at GoPro, where he is the Senior Vice President of media and in charge of development of the organization’s core strategy around all the unique content created by its users.
The President of GoPro was also passionate about this opportunity for Lurie, as he believes that this will be a terrific opportunity to demonstrate their love and respect for SurveyMonkey and the legacy of David Goldberg which will live on.
Even though, Lurie was a very close family friend of Dave, he believes that he can carry out his new responsibilities in the required professional manner and diligence without getting emotionally vested into this job. Lurie has tremendous respect for David and believes that he was a visionary leader.
“Dave was a strong leader who assembled an extraordinary team that is committed to fully realizing the company’s mission to help people around the world make better decisions with data,” commented Lurie.
Goldberg, 47, who was vacationing with his family in Mexico suddenly passed away. His wife, Sheryl Sandberg, is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. David has two small children.
Although David’s loss cannot be made up, SurveyMonkey will try its level best to continue in the direction the ex-CEO was on.
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