Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

On September 20, 2021, C. Andrew Ballard was appointed to the Board of Directors of Etsy, Inc. ("Etsy") to serve as a Class I director (for a term expiring at the 2022 annual meeting of stockholders), effective September 30, 2021. No committee assignments have been made yet. As a non-employee director, Mr. Ballard will be compensated for his services pursuant to Etsy's Amended and Restated Director Compensation Program for Non-Employee Directors, effective as of March 5, 2021 and filed as Exhibit 10.2 to Etsy's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter-ended March 31, 2021. Etsy also expects to enter into its standard indemnification agreement for directors with Mr. Ballard, the form of which was filed as Exhibit 10.1 to Etsy's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year-ended December 31, 2020.

Mr. Ballard was not selected as a director pursuant to any arrangements or understandings with Etsy or with any other person, and there are no related party transactions between Etsy and Mr. Ballard that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

A copy of the press release announcing Mr. Ballard's appointment to the Board of Directors has been filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.



(d) Exhibits

Exhibit No.              Description
  99.1                     Press Release issued by Etsy, Inc. on September 2    1    , 2021
                         Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page XBRL tags are embedded
104                      within the Inline XBRL document



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