PetMed Express, Inc. announced the appointment of Leah Solivan to the Company?s Board of Directors (?the Board?), effective June 24, 2024. Solivan brings over 20 years of experience building and scaling technology businesses to the Company?s Board. As a General Partner at Fuel Capital, she focuses on early-stage investments across a variety of sectors, including consumer technology, hardware, education, marketplaces, and retail.

Her entrepreneurial acumen is exemplified by her founding of TaskRabbit in 2008, which she steered through significant growth phases before orchestrating its successful acquisition by IKEA in 2017. Ms. Solivan is currently a General Partner at Fuel Capital, a seed stage venture capital firm investing in consumer, software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure companies. Ms. Solivan has served at Fuel Capital since July 2017.

Before Fuel Capital, Ms. Solivan created one of the most widely recognized new consumer technology brands of the past decades with TaskRabbit, the pioneering on-demand marketplace company she founded in 2008. As TaskRabbit?s CEO for eight years, Leah scaled the company into an international business with operations in 44 cities and more than $50 million in venture capital funding. In 2017, Ms. Solivan oversaw TaskRabbit?s successful sale to IKEA, the multinational home decor corporation.

Ms. Solivan began her career as a software engineer at IBM, where she worked for seven years on products including Lotus Notes and Domino. With over twenty years of experience, Ms. Solivan is a frequent speaker on topics such as entrepreneurship, the future of work, and women in technology. Ms. Solivan?s achievements have been featured in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Time, and Fast Company named her one of the ?100 Most Creative People in Business.?

Ms. Solivan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Sweet Briar College, where she has served on the Board of Directors.