Deb Wasser, IRC

Vice President of Investor Relations, Etsy

Deb is VP of Investor Relations at Etsy.  She joined Etsy in April 2018 to lead a three-person IR team, overseeing all of the company’s interactions with Wall Street.  Deb has helped the team to improve its earnings call content, host its first-ever investor day, ramp up governance engagement, increase sell-side coverage and buy-side engagement, revamp the IR website, and file its first 10K incorporating integrated social impact reporting.

Prior to Etsy, Deb led Edelman’s IR practice in the U.S. from January 2015 to April 2018. She advised the senior management and boards of public companies on strategic communications including IR, financial and corporate public relations, transaction communications, crisis communications, and leadership positioning. Prior to joining Edelman, Deb was Senior Vice President, IR and Corporate Communications, for Veeco Instruments for over 15 years. Earlier, Deb served as a Vice President at Dewe Rogerson Inc. and was Director of IR for Immunomedics, a biotechnology company.

Deb is a board member of the National Investor Relations Institute as well as its New York Chapter, and is one of more than 135 IR practitioners globally who have received the IRC certification