Colin Stretch

Colin Stretch is Etsy’s Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, responsible for overseeing Etsy’s legal, policy, and advocacy functions.

Colin brings 25 years of legal experience to Etsy, including as former General Counsel of Facebook (now Meta) from 2013-2019 where he led the company’s legal and compliance functions as well as corporate legal affairs. Before that, he was Facebook’s Deputy General Counsel from 2010-2013, running the regulatory and litigation divisions. After Facebook, Colin became a Leader-in-Residence at Columbia University Law School’s Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character & Leadership and was an Executive-in-Residence at Columbia Business School.

Earlier in his career, Colin was a partner at Kellogg, Hansen, Figel & Frederick. He also clerked for Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the United States Supreme Court and Judge Laurence H. Silberman on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He was a member of the Honors Program in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice.