Etsy, Inc. announced 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.

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