Our TEAM

What’s a Spreetailer?

What’s a Spreetailer?

We’re smart, confident, and determined ecommerce experts.

Our greatest opportunity lies in our ability to give and grow the communities that support us. We focus on developing programming to drive change at the systemic level, ensuring the next generation of Spreetailers have access to the resources they need to pursue their own success.

Global Executive Leadership

The Spreetail Executive team is made up of experienced, passionate ecommerce leaders who are eager to build the best Marketplace Accelerator in the world.
Brett Thome
CEO, Global
Brett Thome has worked at Spreetail since starting as an intern in 2008. While he has served in many different roles and areas of Spreetail, he has been Spreetail's CEO for 8 years and more recently, Global CEO since 2020.  In Brett's free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Katie, and 3 kids, Wilder, Waverly, and Westlyn. He also enjoys traveling and exploring new places, usually beach locations.
Owen Carr
CEO, North America
Owen Carr has 10 years in project management and ecommerce experience, specializing in merchandising at CPO Commerce before joining Spreetail as the Chief Merchandising Officer. Owen has been instrumental in the growth and expansion of Spreetail, utilizing his passion for continuous improvement to earn his current role as CEO, North America. In his free time, Owen can be found training for his next race or at the park with his wife and three children.
Mehmet Kalay
CEO, Europe
Mehmet Kalay brings over 20 years of ecommerce, international business management, private equity, and leadership experience from Abraaj Group, Hilti, and Tetra Pak - including 10 years at the c-suite level. In his free time, Mehmet enjoys hiking and traveling with his wife, Elif, and son, Cem. He has traveled to over 70 countries and wants to continue to grow that list.
Jake Schmitt
Chief Technology Officer
Jake Schmitt brings nearly a decade of software development and engineering experience to his role as CTO at Spreetail, with most of that time in the space of ecommerce. Jake’s educational background in both Computer Engineering and Business allows him to closely tie the impacts of Technology to helping Spreetail’s business. Jake also enjoys spending time with his family and friends and traveling around the country in his self-converted Ford Transit Cargo Van, Vandy.
Emily Olinger
Chief People Officer
Emily Olinger has been with Spreetail since 2015 and as the Chief People Office since 2018. Emily spent her early years studying strengths in the workplace and employee engagement. She has been an instrumental part of Spreetail's growth as a company by shaping our talent acquisition, development, employee experience, and spearheaded how we live our mantra within Spreetail. Emily spends her free time with her husband, Kyle, her daughter, Ana, and her son-in-law, Graham traveling and exploring new places.
Josh Ketter
Chief Financial Officer
Joshua brings 15+ years of experience in Finance, Ecommerce, Technology, Operations, International Expansion, M&A, and Corporate Strategy, both for Fortune 50’s and startups. He oversaw Amazon.com’s tech and fulfillment costs for almost a decade, as well as Target’s Digital P&L and Enterprise Strategy, and is a former auditor from Deloitte. When he’s not working, he loves spending time traveling as well as running with his wife, and two amazing daughters.
Allan Hale
Chief Strategic Initiatives Officer
Allan Hale brings over 20 years of experience in distribution, retail, management consulting, and ecommerce, holding leadership positions in companies such as Deloitte, Sears, Canadian Tire, and more. He has a strong focus on constructing and executing top-tier growth strategies from the ground up. Allan has a passion for connecting with others, whether through sports or a meal hosted at his home with his wife and two children.
Matt Allred
Chief Merchant Officer
George Chang brings over 20 years of ecommerce leadership expertise from Rakuten, Newegg, Sears, Mirakl, Bedsure, and VTEX. When he is not trying to conquer the ecommerce world, George enjoys watching his son play basketball and his USC Trojans perform on the football field.
Brett Thome
CEO, Global
Brett Thome has worked at Spreetail since starting as an intern in 2008. While he has served in many different roles and areas of Spreetail, he has been Spreetail's CEO since 2013 and more recently, Global CEO since 2020. In Brett's free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Katie, and 3 kids, Wilder, Waverly, and Westlyn. He also enjoys traveling and exploring new places, usually beach locations.
Owen Carr
CEO, North America
Owen Carr has 10 years in project management and ecommerce experience, specializing in merchandising at CPO Commerce before joining Spreetail as the Chief Merchandising Officer. Owen has been instrumental in the growth and expansion of Spreetail, utilizing his passion for continuous improvement to earn his current role as CEO, North America. In his free time, Owen can be found training for his next race or at the park with his wife and three children.
Mehmet Kalay
CEO, Europe
Mehmet Kalay brings over 20 years of ecommerce, international business management, private equity, and leadership experience from Abraaj Group, Hilti, and Tetra Pak - including 10 years at the c-suite level. In his free time, Mehmet enjoys hiking and traveling with his wife, Elif, and son, Cem. He has traveled to over 70 countries and wants to continue to grow that list.
Jake Schmitt
Chief Technology Officer
Jake Schmitt brings nearly a decade of software development and engineering experience to his role as CTO at Spreetail, with most of that time in the space of ecommerce. Jake’s educational background in both Computer Engineering and Business allows him to closely tie the impacts of Technology to helping Spreetail’s business. Jake also enjoys spending time with his family and friends and traveling around the country in his self-converted Ford Transit Cargo Van, Vandy.
Emily Olinger
Chief People Officer
Emily Olinger has been with Spreetail since 2015 and as the Chief People Office since 2018. Emily spent her early years studying strengths in the workplace and employee engagement. She has been an instrumental part of Spreetail's growth as a company by shaping our talent acquisition, development, employee experience, and spearheaded how we live our values within Spreetail. Emily spends her free time with her husband, Kyle, her daughter, Ana, and her son-in-law, Graham traveling and exploring new places.
Joshua Ketter
Chief Financial Officer
Joshua brings 15+ years of experience in ecommerce, technology, operations, international expansion, M&A, and corporate strategy, both for Fortune 50’s and startups. He oversaw Amazon.com’s tech and fulfillment costs for almost a decade, as well as Target’s Digital P&L and Enterprise Strategy, and is a former auditor from Deloitte. When he’s not working, he loves spending time traveling as well as running with his wife, and two amazing daughters.
Allen Hale
Chief Strategic Initiatives Officer
Allan Hale brings over 20 years of experience in distribution, retail, management consulting, and ecommerce, holding leadership positions in companies such as Deloitte, Sears, Canadian Tire, and more. He has a strong focus on constructing and executing top-tier growth strategies from the ground up. Allan has a passion for connecting with others, whether through sports or a meal hosted at his home with his wife and two children.
Matt Allred
Chief Merchant Officer
George Chang brings over 20 years of ecommerce leadership expertise from Rakuten, Newegg, Sears, Mirakl, Bedsure, and VTEX. When he is not trying to conquer the ecommerce world, George enjoys watching his son play basketball and his USC Trojans perform on the football field.
OUR Departments

It takes all of us to accelerate brands and channels to compete for tomorrow’s ecommerce customer.

Marketing

The Marketing team’s mission is to target, engage, and convert the right customers at scale with the most efficient and effective paid media across the ecommerce landscape. The team crafts a unified shopper experience across all buying stages, including Awareness, Consideration, and Conversion.

Assortment Growth

The Assortment Growth Team is focused on building the company’s pipeline by finding the best partners with the greatest products and growth potential. By outbound prospecting, relationship building, and onboarding new vendors, this team aims to bring on new partners each month.

Channels

Our Channels Division is the connecting link between products and our customers. The team partners with ecommerce giants such as Amazon, Walmart, Target, and eBay to optimize the purchase process for tens of thousands of online transactions daily

Finance

The Accounting and Finance Teams enable business decision-making by accounting for every financial transaction and providing timely, accurate, clear, and complete information that helps us visualize our company’s financial goals and continue to focus on growth.

People & Culture

Our People & Culture Division’s purpose is to build the best team and culture for Spreetail's success by hiring the best candidates, investing in our team with top-of-the-line training and coaching, and making our team feel connected through communications and employee engagement initiatives.

Retail Operations

The Retail Operations Division is a central shared services team with a purpose to drive a high level of subject matter expertise and innovation to allow Spreetail to scale, grow, and drive business metrics.

Software & Technology

The Software & Technology Team builds completely home-grown software to equip our workforce and partners with innovative digital tools that accelerate business growth and efficiency through development, maintenance, and scaling of our custom toolsets.

Strategic Initiatives

The Strategic Initiatives Team is creating an incubator that can take on very large, complex, and cross-functional initiatives that will transform Spreetail over the next 5+ years. This team’s goal is to launch various concepts by establishing operations and building teams, then transitioning the business strategy at the right time to the right leader for long-term success.

Supply Chain

The Supply Chain Division is focused on providing the best experience regardless of where goods are manufactured or shipped from. Our strategically located fulfillment centers, state-of-the-art outbound solutions, and investment in great people have enabled us to consistently hit blazing fast delivery metrics.

Vendor Management

Our Vendor Management Team plays a key role in accelerating growth for our current and new partners by developing long-term relationships and owning the vision and ecommerce strategy of multiple categories.

Inclusion at Spreetail

Creating a culture of belonging.

We are relentless in our pursuit of equity and equality, we embrace cultural differences that raise our bar, we pursue the challenges within ourselves to make Spreetail better, and we humbly acknowledge our duty to build and foster an inclusive workplace where all may succeed.

The  Spreetail  Pride Alliance (SPA) serves as an Inclusion Network and community of LGBTQA+ people and their allies at  Spreetail.

Spreetail Professionals of Color (SPOC) serves as a community of BIPOC and friends, as well as Spreetail’s connection to the wider BIPOC community.

The mission of Professional Women Rising (PWR) is to connect, strengthen, and empower women at Spreetail through the creation of a supportive community, dedication to equality and equity, and advocacy for women in the workplace.

our communities

We are better together.

Our greatest opportunity lies in our ability to give and grow the communities that support us. We focus on developing programming to drive change at the systemic level, ensuring the next generation of Spreetailers have access to the resources they need to pursue their own success.

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Ready to Raise Your Bar?

To build the best team and culture, we need achievers who are constantly creating new and innovative ways for Spreetail to be successful. If you thrive in a hyper-growth environment and are craving a career in the ever-evolving ecommerce industry, we have an opportunity for you.

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