SurveyMonkey names Bill Veghte as CEO

SurveyMonkey names Hewlett-Packard executive Bill Veghte as its CEO. He takes over from David Goldberg who died on holiday in Mexico in May.

SurveyMonkey has named a Hewlett-Packard Co executive to take over for chief executive David Goldberg, who died in May while holidaying in Mexico.

Goldberg was married to Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Bill Veghte, who was COO at HP, will become SurveyMonkey's CEO on August 1, the company said on Tuesday. He most recently led HP's enterprise group and has held executive posts at Microsoft Corp.

On Monday, SurveyMonkey named Sandberg to its board of directors. Her husband had been CEO at the Palo Alto, California, company since 2009.

SurveyMonkey operates an online survey platform.


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