Kruti Patel Goyal

Chief Executive Officer and President Etsy

Last Reviewed: September 30, 2026

Executive Summary

Kruti Patel Goyal is Chief Executive Officer and President of Etsy, the Brooklyn-based online marketplace for handmade, vintage and creative goods, and a member of its board. She took over as chief executive on January 1, 2026, succeeding Josh Silverman, who became Executive Chair. She has spent her whole operating career at Etsy and its subsidiaries since joining in 2011. She built its trust and safety function, ran its product organisation, and left the core business for two and a half years to run Depop, the fashion resale marketplace Etsy then owned. In her first year as CEO, Etsy completed the sale of Depop to eBay for about $1.4 billion in cash, leaving the company focused solely on the Etsy marketplace.

Career Highlights

• Chief Executive Officer of Etsy since January 2026, President since January 2025, and a director since January 2026.
• Chief Growth Officer of Etsy in 2025, overseeing Product, Marketing, Member Support, Trust and Safety, and Strategy and Operations.
• Chief Executive Officer of Depop from September 2022 to March 2025.
• Chief Product Officer of Etsy from October 2019 to July 2022.
• Earlier at Etsy: Senior Vice President of Product, General Manager of Seller Services, and head of Business & Corporate Development, International, and Marketplace Integrity and Trust & Safety.
• Oversaw the sale of Depop to eBay, completed July 30, 2026.
• Named in August 2026 to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Business Advisory Council, according to India-West.

Professional Journey

Patel Goyal began her career in finance: according to Etsy, she was an M&A analyst at Morgan Stanley and a growth equity investor at General Atlantic Partners, focused on technology businesses. She also held roles at (RED) and at Viacom, where India-West reports she worked in strategy and business development.

She joined Etsy in 2011 and moved through a series of roles. She was the first head of its Marketplace Integrity and Trust & Safety teams, and she led the International team and the Business & Corporate Development function. She later ran the global Seller Services business as General Manager and then became Senior Vice President of Product. In October 2019 she was named Chief Product Officer.

In September 2022 she became chief executive of Depop, the fashion resale marketplace then owned by Etsy, and ran it until March 2025. She returned to Etsy’s core business as President and Chief Growth Officer from January 2025, with responsibility for product, marketing, member support, trust and safety, and strategy and operations. Etsy’s 2026 proxy says she led a comprehensive assessment of the marketplace in that role and led efforts to improve its gross merchandise sales trends.

On October 29, 2025, Etsy announced that Silverman would step down as CEO at the end of the year after more than eight years and that Patel Goyal would succeed him and join the board from January 1, 2026. Board chair Fred Wilson described the appointment as the outcome of succession planning; Wilson became Lead Independent Director. In February 2026 Etsy agreed to sell Depop to eBay, and the sale completed on July 30, 2026, for approximately $1.4 billion in cash. Announcing the completion, Patel Goyal said the transaction let Etsy move forward with a clear focus on building the best marketplace for its buyers and sellers.

Education

Stanford University

Bachelor’s degree, Economics

Harvard Business School

Master of Business Administration

Education is as reported by India-West in August 2026; Etsy’s own filings and biography do not state it.