After sudden demise of Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, on May 1, Zander Lurie, senior VP of media at GoPro will serve as an interim chairman of board for three months.

Lurie, a former Guggenheim Digital Media and CBS executive, serves on SurveyMonkey's board. But now he will be the interim CEO while the board conducts a search for a new CEO.

He said, "I am a resource to SurveyMonkey during this transition. 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".

Goldberg, who joined SurveyMonkey in 2009 died a week ago after he fell while exercising at a resort in Mexico. He served at Yahoo and and venture-capital firm Benchmark. He was the husband of husband of Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg.

He was remembered in a memorial service this week that drew luminaries from the technology and entertainment industries.

Lurie was also Goldberg's close friend. But he will help the company through the transition. He will also continue in his job at GoPro. Lurie has worked at CBS, and has also been an investor There are likely to be both external and internal candidates for the job of running SurveyMonkey, which was recently valued at over $2 billion.

Lurie said that 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.

GoPro President Tony Bates added that they consider this a small opportunity to demonstrate their respect for SurveyMonkey and Dave's legacy.