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SurveyMonkey appoints Tom Hale as president

Online survey and data platform SurveyMonkey has appointed Tom Hale as president. Mr. Hale will oversee engineering, product, product marketing, user experience and growth at the company.

Most recently, Mr. Hale served as chief operating officer at HomeAway.  Prior to that, Mr. Hale served in senior positions at Linden Lab (makers of Second Life) and Adobe Systems, and was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Redpoint Ventures. He also worked at Macromedia for ten years.

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