ThredUp names Kelly Bodnar Battles to board, audit committee chair

ThredUp Inc. (NASDAQ: TDUP) announced the appointment of Kelly Bodnar Battles to its board of directors, effective December 1, 2025. Battles will serve as audit committee chair upon joining the board.

Battles brings over 35 years of finance and strategy leadership experience to the online resale platform. She has served as chief financial officer at Alpha Medical, Quora, Bracket Computing, and Host Analytics, and held executive roles at Cisco Systems and Hewlett Packard.

The financial executive currently serves on the board and audit committee of Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) and holds board positions at Genesys, Qumulo, and Alpha Medical, where she chairs audit committees. She previously served in similar roles at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Battles holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, both with honors.

"Kelly's experience in financial leadership and corporate governance, particularly at multiple high-growth, public companies, is invaluable as ThredUp continues to scale and mature," said James Reinhart, cofounder and CEO of ThredUp.

The appointment adds to ThredUp's nine-member board, which includes Chair Patricia Nakache, Ian Friedman, Mandy Ginsberg, Timothy Haley, Dan Nova, Coretha Rushing, Noam Paransky, and CEO James Reinhart.

ThredUp operates as an online marketplace for secondhand apparel, shoes, and accessories. The company has processed over 200 million secondhand items from 60,000 brands across 100 categories, according to the press release statement.

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