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President

thredUP is the leading online marketplace to buy and sell like-new women's and kids' clothing. The company publishes the Annual Resale Report, and pioneered the Clean Out Bag, the most convenient way for consumers to sell clothes they're no longer wearing. It accepts clothing from more than 25,000 women's and kids' brands, and resells the items for up to 90 percent off the original retail price.

Anthony serves as Chief Marketing Officer at thredUP, where he is responsible for revenue, growth marketing (acquisition), ad tech, CRM (retention), marketing analytics, product strategy, brand, and communications. thredUP is a pioneer in bringing the $30 billion fashion resale industry online.Before thredUP, Anthony spent seven years on the leadership team of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, leading its investment program and product innovation teams in North America. As Managing Partner, he led the creation of multiple Virgin businesses, including Virgin Money, Virgin Cruise and Virgin Hotels. Anthony founded the Virgin Hotels Group and served as its CEO and Head of Brand from 2009-2012. Virgin Hotel Chicago, the Group's flagship, was recently named #1 Hotel in the USA by Conde Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards.Prior to joining Virgin, Anthony was a Principal at Venrock, the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family office. During his six years there, Anthony worked closely with start-up founders to develop highly-disruptive products and scale their businesses through periods of rapid growth. Before Venrock, Anthony held strategy, product marketing, and business development roles at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Labs) where he was on the founding team of the voice-over-IP software business unit and authored the first product spec for the company’s 'soft-switch' telecom server. Telcordia was acquired by Ericsson for $1.15 billion.Anthony earned an AB, magna cum laude, from Princeton University where he was a Rhodes Scholar national finalist, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.