Maria Thomas

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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 served as a Board Member at Relay Foods and Spoonflower. She serves as a Board Member at McClatchy. She was an early product leader at Amazon.com and has been building innovative digital business models and lasting consumer brands ever since. Thomas 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. Thomas 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. Thomas currently serves on the board of the privately held digital textile printing and e-commerce company Spoonflower. She served three years on the board of online grocery company Relay Foods before its merger with Door-to-Door Organics. Thomas is also an angel investor in several startups.