Executive moves, hires, and operator profiles across fashion and luxury resale. Day-to-day moves run in the daily Wire; longer profiles publish here.
EBAY / DEPOPJamie Iannone and Peter Semple frame Depop under eBay ownership
After eBay completed its acquisition of Depop on July 30, 2026, eBay chief executive Jamie Iannone said the combination expands reach with the next generation of buyers and sellers while Depop keeps a distinct customer experience. Depop chief executive Peter Semple called the move a new chapter and said Depop would continue delivering the experience its users value, according to eBay's press release.
The signal: ownership changed, but both CEOs publicly committed to preserving Depop's brand and community rather than folding it into eBay's core marketplace on day one.
VESTIAIRE COLLECTIVEThomas Hezard and Remi Bouchez take product and technology
Vestiaire Collective named Thomas Hezard chief product officer and Remi Bouchez chief technology officer in March, the first senior hires under chief executive Bernard Osta. The company framed both appointments around an AI roadmap spanning search, personalization, and authentication.
The signal: Osta's Vestiaire will compete on engineering, and the platform's path to its targeted first profitable year runs through the product organization, not the marketing one.
THE REALREALTiffany Stevenson and Tom Hanrahan join the C-suite
The RealReal appointed Tiffany Stevenson chief people officer and Tom Hanrahan chief revenue officer in March, drawing on leadership experience from Sephora, Box, Weight Watchers, and Square.
A consignment operation at The RealReal's scale is a labor business as much as a marketplace, and pairing a people chief with a revenue chief in one announcement says the company sees its next phase as an execution problem, not a demand problem.
THE REALREALFanatics operator Jennifer McKeehan joins the board
The RealReal appointed Jennifer McKeehan, chief operating officer of Fanatics Commerce, to its board of directors in March, succeeding Niki Leondakis, who stepped down after serving since 2019. McKeehan's background runs through Walmart, Peloton, and The Home Depot, all logistics-heavy operations.
Boards signal their priorities by who they seat, and this seat says supply chain.
VESTIAIRE COLLECTIVECo-founder Fanny Moizant exits the company she started
Fanny Moizant, who co-founded Vestiaire Collective in 2009 and served as president, departed in January, writing on LinkedIn that the exit followed organizational changes and was not a decision she initiated. With her departure, fashion director Sophie Hersan remains the last co-founder in post.
The founder era at Vestiaire is effectively over, and the finance-and-operations era under Bernard Osta now owns the results.
VESTIAIRE COLLECTIVEBernard Osta takes the top job
Bernard Osta became chief executive of Vestiaire Collective in October, promoted from chief financial officer after joining as chief strategy officer in 2021, with fifteen prior years in investment banking at Lazard and Goldman Sachs. His stated 2026 target is the company's first profitable year.
A banker CEO replacing a founder-adjacent one is the clearest possible statement of what the board wants next: discipline over story.
