Serena Williams Joins SurveyMonkey Board in Diversity Push
- Moves come as Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Whitman steps down
- Williams says she’s committed to ‘letting all voices be heard’
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Tennis champion Serena Williams will join the board of online-polling provider SurveyMonkey Inc., where she’s expected to advocate for diversity at the company and throughout Silicon Valley.
Joining Williams on the board is Intuit Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brad Smith. The two replace Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. CEO Meg Whitman and Bill Veghte, executive chairman of Turbonomic, who have stepped down. Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is also on the board of SurveyMonkey, where her late husband David Goldberg was CEO.