Maria Thomas General Information

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Ms. Maria Thomas serves as an Advisor at Riley (Communication Software). She also serves as the Chief Marketing and Consumer Officer at Physical Graph. She previously served as Board Member at McClatchy. Ms. Thomas served as Board Member at Relay Foods and Spoonflower. She was an early product leader at Amazon.com and has been building innovative digital business models and lasting consumer brands ever since. She spent seven years leading NPR Digital and was a driving force behind NPR's successful transformation from a radio-only company to a best-in-class multimedia enterprise. She was the first non-founder CEO at Etsy from 2008 to 2010, leading the young company through a period of extraordinary growth and into profitability. Under her leadership, Etsy became a trusted global brand and e-commerce platform serving hundreds of thousands of sellers. She served three years on the board of online grocery company Relay Foods before its merger with Door-to-Door Organics. She is also an angel investor in several startups. Ms. Thomas served as advisor in recreation commerce