Our Team at thredUP

James Reinhart (Co-founder & CEO)

James is a serial entrepreneur and recent graduate of the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School where he was both a Bill George Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership and an HBS Goldsmith Fellow. Prior to HBS/HKS, while working in the Bay Area, he helped build one of the nation's premier public schools, Pacific Collegiate School - recently named the #3 school in America by US News & World Report. He is a product of New Jersey public schools and Boston College.

Oliver Lubin (Co-founder & Design/UX)

Oliver, Lead UI Designer, was previously the Technology Director at Foley Hoag LLP. Prior to joining Foley, Oliver earned a Master of Science in Healthcare Technology Management at Marquette University. He has worked in marketing and technology consulting for the past six years and holds a degree in Computer Science from Boston College.

Chris Homer (Co-founder & CTO)

Chris bleeds entrepreneurship and when he comes across a new idea, he can't help but dive in and start building the prototype. Chris began his career at Microsoft as part of its live-event sales group. Chris helped grow the reach of the company's mid-market sales group by building a new website where prospects could interact with the team and learn about upcoming events. Chris is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and has a BS in Engineering from Princeton University.

Carly Fauth (Chief Mom)

Carly, Chief Mom, was formerly in Public Relations and Marketing and has years of experience using social media. She is the proud parent to Ryker Fauth - 9 months old - and is thredUP's in-house resource on all aspects of reaching new moms. Carly grew up in New Jersey and graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BA in Communications.

Sara Gibb (Program Designer)

Sara spends her time turning knitwit ideas the thredUP team dreams up into rock star programs. A proud graduate of Boston College, her decade spent as a teacher and college administrator is coming in handy with this new venture. Having served thredUP for her first 2 years with the company as Chief Military Mom, Sara is a Navy wife and mom to Ryan (7), David (5) and Lexi (3). She holds a Master's Degree from the University of Connecticut, and would enjoy yoga, reading and cooking food that isn't orange in her spare time (if she had any).

Karen Fein (Public Relations/Marketing)

Karen has a strong and developing expertise in Public Relations, Marketing & Social Media. Previously, she worked at a communications agency, building targeted PR campaigns and securing top tier media hits. Currently, Karen spends her days getting perfectly crafted thredUP messages out to anyone who will listen. She's a graduate of Connecticut College with a degree in American Studies.

Heidi Howland (Ruby on Rails & Front-End Developer)

Heidi came to thredUP as a graduate of Northeastern University with a BS in Graphic Design. She moved to San Francisco with the company in the fall of the same year. Heidi began learning programming on the job and now spends her days as a front end coder and a budding Ruby on Rails developer.

Jenny Thompson (Customer Service Specialist)

Jenny's the youngest member of our team and handles lots of the customer service e-mails. She's originally from Texas, and has lived all over the place. Dallas, NYC, Boston and now San Francisco! She's also thredUP's office manager--whatever that means...

Dan DeMeyere (Ruby on Rails & Front-End Developer)

After spending two years in Los Angeles working for a start-up, Dan joined the thredUP team in San Francisco and combined his previous Front-End experience with new Back-End Rails development. Dan has a BS in Computer Science Engineering from Michigan State University.

Michele Adams and Gia Russo (Directors of Content & Community)

Michele and Gia are lifestyle experts and former Martha Stewart Living editors. The "MiGi girls" have been featured in over 100 publications sharing their collective expertise on organization, budgeting, cleaning, home design, and parenting. Most recently, they were featured in InStyle, Lucky, Glamour and Fit Pregnancy. The duo has also appeared on Oprah and penned the book At Home with Friends, which was selected for Oprah's Book List.

Kylie Johnson (Ruby on Rails & Front-End Developer)

After graduating from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Electrical Engineering, Kylie continued to build upon the software engineering foundation she acquired in school. She spent several years building computer network defense applications and communication systems for a large company. Although she thoroughly enjoyed her previous life, Kylie is thrilled to be a part of thredUP, getting to use the artistic side of her brain more, and helping to make thredUP even easier and more fun to use.

Hao Le (Ruby on Rails & Front-End Developer)

A geek at heart, raised by video games, Hao studied Computer Science with the aspiration of saving the world by building awesome video games. While working to pay for his education, he realized that video games were not the only application of software. After working at several large companies, Hao finds himself at a tiny place called thredUP. Hao hopes to apply what he's learned to help thredUP provide its community with an ever-improving experience.

Michelle Lee-Schmidt (Head of Product)

Michelle is intrigued by the intersection of user research, product development, good design and start-up life. Prior to thredUP, she co-founded and drove product at ShopWell, served as product lead/designer at IDEO (with clients including Procter & Gamble, HP and the Kellogg Foundation), dreamed up new toys for University Games and VTech, and dabbled in aerospace at Lockheed Martin. She holds an M.S. in Product Design and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford.

Will Usher (Ruby on Rails Engineer)

Will loves discovering new things and enjoys problem-solving. While studying Computer Science in college, he joined the Army Reserves, which brought him all over the U.S. He was eventually deployed to Iraq, where he learned how to build computer networks. Upon returning from his adventures in Iraq, he finished his last year of college, married his best friend, and moved to San Francisco to develop enterprise software. While Will had a blast making enterprise software, he is enjoying creating something a little more personable.

Wilson Collado (Ruby on Rails & Front-End Developer)

Wilson eats code for breakfast. He's been writing software since high school, and has yet to find anything else that's as challenging or gratifying to do (maybe video games, but it's hard to get paid for that). Wilson was raised in New York City, and decided that he wanted to experience new things, leading him to San Francisco and thredUP. Wilson loves working at thredUP, where he is able to experiment with his work and grow as a developer.

Kevin Chen (iOS Developer)

After graduating from UC San Diego, Kevin discovered that Biochemistry wasn't his true calling after all. He began teaching himself iOS development in his spare time and published several apps on the Apple app store. Now part of the thredUP mobile team, he is obsessed with creating quality software that provides the best possible experience to the user.

Edmundo Martinez (Ruby on Rails & Frontend Developer)

After obtaining his Computer Science degree at UC Berkeley in 2011, Edmundo was eager to get himself into the start-up scene and see what all the fuzz was about. He was not disappointed in the very least and now gets to happily code away as a part of the thredUP team.

Natalie Moreno (Public Relations/Marketing)

Natalie brings a diverse approach with her previous marketing experience working with a travel magazine, an online ticket marketplace, and a multicultural advertising agency. Besides thinking of creative ways to market thredUP to the moms of the world, she spends her time baking, eating, and living and breathing Giants baseball. Natalie joined thredUP as a recent graduate from the University of San Francisco with a BS in International Business and Multicultural Marketing.

Daniela Piccetti (Buying & Merchandising Associate)

Daniela is a recent graduate from the University of San Francisco with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. Since graduation she has been following her passions, dabbling in everything from tutoring kids to working in a non-profit law office. ThredUP is the most recent stop on her road to self-discovery allowing her to pursue her true loves - people, fashion, and being a stickler for detail. If she's not running around the warehouse you will find her strolling the streets of her native San Francisco, cooking with her crazy Italian family, or out on the town with friends in the tallest platform heels she could get her hands on.

Kim Suarez (Buying & Merchandising Associate)

After a career change from Marine Biology to Apparel Management, Kim graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles with a degree in Apparel Industry Management and a desire to work for an apparel company that merges fashion with technology. Outside of work, Kim enjoys music, sports (SF Giants!), hiking/camping and photography.

Rachel Torimoto (Customer Service)

A self proclaimed computer nerd, Rachel is always on the lookout for a new project to add to her toolbelt. She is a Georgia native (let's hear it for the Southern gals!) and lives with her family in the suburbs of Atlanta. She has three children Andrew (8), Reese (3) and Ella (1) and met her husband online 14 years ago (before it was cool to admit it!). Rachel recently joined the thredUP team as a Customer Service Knitwit and loves having the chance to combine her passions for children, helping others, technology and thredUP! An avid reader, you'll find her curled up with her Kindle (maybe in a closet hiding from the kids) or at the park or lake with the family. If you ask her husband where to find her, he'll point to the lump under the mountains of coupons in her office, which is the newest project for her belt.

Jamie Taylor (Customer Service)

Jamie is a proud Army wife, stay-at-home mother of 2, and currently a country girl living in a very, very small town in Montana. Because of her love for children she graduated from Southern Utah University with a degree in Early Childhood Education, and has been an early childhood educator for the last 12 years. She also loves buying clothes for her children but it gets so expensive, she found thredUP and was instantly addicted. Jamie joined the thredUP customer service team for a new adventure. It is the perfect way for her to combine her love for children, children's clothes, and assisting others in their thredUP addiction. In her free time she enjoys spending time in the beauty that is Montana, and as much time as possible with her family.

Stephanie Edwards-Musa (Customer Service)

A treehugger at heart from Spring, Tx Stephanie for seven years dedicated herself to the sales, marketing and education of consumers about sustainable real estate. She wrote a course to teach at the local college, sat on multiple committees in the Houston area and blogged her way to being known as the 'green' Realtor ®. Being a member of thredUP combined her love for sustainability and online community. The daily routine of real estate found her wanting more time with the family and found it perfect to join the customer service team. When she is not online working you can find her outdoors enjoying the beauty of nature and teaching her children the importance of respecting the simple things in life.