Etsy Appoints New Chief Legal Officer Colin Stretch

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Etsy has a new Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, announcing Colin Stretch will be joining the company effective February 14.

Etsy Appoints Colin Stretch as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Etsy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ETSY), which operates two-sided online marketplaces that connect millions of passionate and creative buyers and sellers around the world, announced today that Colin Stretch will join the company as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, effective on February 14, 2023. Colin…

ROOKLYN, N.Y., Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Etsy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ETSY), which operates two-sided online marketplaces that connect millions of passionate and creative buyers and sellers around the world, announced today that Colin Stretch will join the company as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, effective on February 14, 2023.

Colin comes to Etsy with 25 years of experience, including as former General Counsel of Facebook (now Meta) from 2013-2019, where he led the company's legal and compliance functions and corporate legal affairs. After Facebook, Colin spent two years as Leader-in-Residence at Columbia University Law School's Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character & Leadership and, most recently, he was Of Counsel at Latham & Watkins.

"We are thrilled to welcome Colin to Etsy. He has a deep commitment to our mission of economic empowerment, and is both a world-class lawyer and world-class leader," Etsy CEO Josh Silverman commented. "Colin's extensive experience will be critical to Etsy's efforts to ensure we remain a safe and trusted marketplace, broaden our reach across all our brands, and advocate for microbusinesses around the world."

Earlier in his career, Colin clerked for Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the United States Supreme Court and Judge Laurence H. Silberman on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He was also a member of the Honors Program in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice.

Colin commented, "Etsy has a strong reputation as not only a prospering business, but as a leader in the advocacy space. I'm honored and excited to be part of Etsy's mission to keep commerce human by enabling creative entrepreneurs around the world to turn their passions into thriving businesses."

Colin will be based out of Etsy's Brooklyn headquarters, report directly to Josh Silverman, and join Etsy's executive team.

In addition to his previous stint as General Counsel at Facebook, Stretch was most recently at Latham & Watkins LLP where, according to his bio, he provided "strategic counsel to clients, including pre-IPO, public companies, and boards of directors, on a wide range of transactional, regulatory, public policy, and litigation matters across the globe."

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Avatar Placeholdercoachgut16 hours ago
Can you export to a CSV file? I need a way to organize my inventory in the order I would like to sell them.
Avatar PlaceholderfoxxresellYesterday
Maybe if they didn't blindly ban sellers and provided customer service this would not be happening. I am not sure any humans work at etsy. After I was wrong banned, I had no way of contacting anyone and even sent paper letters (remember those?). They were all returned to me.
AvatarLiz Morton2 days ago
This article was written three months when the GSP rates went up, then back down (but not all the way to where they had been previously) due to a glitch and/or tariff changes at that time.

The rates have now gone back up again because the de minimis exemption for items made in China ended on May 2, 2025 - and it also appears that if the seller didn't specify the Country of Origin, eBay may be defaulting to the assumption that it was made in China for the purposes of calculating the duties for the Global Shipping Program.

https://www.valueaddedresource.net/trump-ends-de-minimis-china-other-countries-to-follow/

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Buying/Sudden-dramatic-increase-in-global-shipping-price-after-winning/m-p/35064987/highlight/true#M520410