Internet executive with 20 years experience, including engineering, product development, general management, business operations, and strategy. Currently CEO at Etsy. Prior to that, Yahoo!, IDG, and Salon.com.

CEO @ Etsy is reimagining commerce in ways that build a more fulfilling and lasting world. We do this by enabling people anywhere to easily build and buy from independent, creative businesses. Etsy has over 40 million registered members (over 1 million of whom are active sellers on the platform) in 200+ countries around the world. In 2013, total community sales on the Etsy platform grew to $1.35 billion. Etsy is proud to be a certified B Corporation — a new kind of company that uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. From July 2011 to Present (4 years 6 months) CTO @ Led engineering team for Etsy, including site operations and software engineering, through a period of intense growth and change. The Etsy engineering team blogs at http://codeascraft.etsy.com/ From September 2008 to July 2011 (2 years 11 months) Sr. Director, Advanced Products / Brickhouse @ Drove strategy and manage product development on early stage ideas and products within Yahoo, leading a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and product managers that incubated version 1.0 products, brought them to market, and handed them off to Yahoo’s operating business units for incorporation into core Yahoo! products when appropriate. The Advanced Products and Brickhouse teams shipped: Yahoo! Live (http://live.yahoo.com/), a live social video broadcasting platform for consumers with API for developers in which users can create their own web-based broadcast channels and interact with their audience via video, audio, and text. Reached over 1MM users in first month of operation. Fire Eagle (http://www.fireeagle.com/), a location platform for developers which allows Yahoo! users to share their location with sites and services online in a secure manner with granular control over privacy. From December 2007 to August 2008 (9 months) Head of Yahoo! Developer Network @ I ran the The Yahoo! Developer Network (http://developer.yahoo.com/), the central source for developers to leverage the Yahoo! platform in their own applications. The Yahoo! platform consists of web services and SDKs that allow developers to build software and services that leverage Yahoo's platform excellence, highly-scalable infrastructure, and leadership position in online social media. From June 2006 to December 2007 (1 year 7 months) Director, Platform Evangelist @ Drove early open platform initiatives at Yahoo, advocating open platforms for third-party developers to drive business value and user engagement. Created and designed Yahoo! Hack Day program, an internal innovation program, and implemented it globally. The Hack Day concept has been copied by companies ranging from small startups to IBM. Won 2006 Yahoo! Superstar Award, the most prestigious employee award at Yahoo! given annually to twelve top performers at Yahoo! worldwide. Awarded 2006 Yahoo! Odyssey Award for contributions to international engineering. From August 2005 to June 2006 (11 months) CTO @ Managed all aspects of technology, including infrastructure, networking, software development, web site production, Test Center, and help desk for InfoWorld. Wrote CTO Connection for InfoWorld’s print magazine, web site, and a weekly e-mail newsletter. Evangelized emerging media technologies within InfoWorld and across IDG, including RSS, weblogs, and podcasting. Reported to the CEO. Advisory board member and co-chair of publishing track for IDG Syndicate conference (May 2005) From April 2001 to August 2005 (4 years 5 months) VP of Technology / CTO @ Managed infrastructure, networking, software development, site production, and desktop support . Created and managed long-term plans for all technology initiatives, including web publishing systems, content redistribution/syndication, and web serving capacity. Hired and managed systems administrators, software developers, support staff, and production staff. Transformed a weak IT organization into one known for its open source, Linux, and CMS expertise. Led one of the earliest Linux migrations, successfully migrating Salon’s infrastructure from Windows NT to Linux in April 1999. Scaled Linux-based infrastructure from 10M monthly page views to 60M page views. Led the development of a custom CMS and personally sold a license for the system to Primedia (NYSE:PRM). The system, now open source and known as Bricolage, was reviewed by eWeek Labs, which called it “one of the best content management systems eWeek Labs has seen, even eclipsing some of the best-known commercial products.” From July 1998 to April 2001 (2 years 10 months) Director of Applications Development @ Founded and managed the development team that built and launched the CNNSI.com web site, a joint venture between CNN and Sports Illustrated, working directly with the General Manager and Executive Producer. Managed the seven-person technical team (six software developers and one webmaster) that continued development of the site. Proposed capital budget, determined hardware and software needs, and managed ordering of hardware and software. Served as the principal technical contact for business deals with third parties, and managed relationships with partners (Intel, CNET, Pathfinder, Microsoft, Yahoo!). Provided the overall technical vision for CNN/SI Interactive including the design, testing, and implementation of workflow tools, content automation, content management, content distribution, and site design. Worked with infrastructure group to deal with capacity planning, bandwidth needs, and scaling servers for large events. From February 1997 to June 1998 (1 year 5 months) Technical Product Manager @ Created business proposals for CNN Interactive projects. Provided technical vision for the leveraging and distribution of CNN Interactive content on the web and in other electronic media. Designed, developed, maintained, and/or supervised the implementation of CNN Interactive software products and reported progress at regular intervals. Coordinated product rollout, including management of development teams. Developed software and worked with software vendors to integrate third-party products with in-house systems. Advised executive team at CNN Interactive on the technical feasibility of business initiatives. Worked with editorial and technical teams to create more efficient production processes and systems. Developed systems to leverage and manage wire content, with emphasis on sports material. From May 1996 to January 1997 (9 months)

BA, English @ Duke University From 1990 to 1993 Chad Dickerson is skilled in: Product Management, Program Management, Scalability, Business Strategy, Start-ups, Innovation, Writing, Product Development, User Experience, E-commerce, Software Development, Blogging, Strategy, Integration, Mobile Devices