Nichole B. Pechet
Board Member
Nichole (Nikki) Pechet has been a member of the Thrivent Board of Directors since 2018. She serves on the Investment committee.
As an entrepreneur and business leader, her unique perspective helps guide Thrivent in its transformation to help people achieve financial clarity, enabling more meaningful and grateful lives.
Pechet is the CEO of Homebound, a venture-backed company creating a better way to build homes with the help of technology. She also is an investor in a range of early-stage technology companies. Before Homebound, Pechet was the vice president of marketing and a core member of the executive team at Thumbtack, a growth-stage technology “unicorn” and the fastest growing company in the $700 billion U.S. local services market. At Thumbtack, she oversaw both growth and experience teams for millions of customers and professionals, as well as communications/ public relations, brand, content and the Thumbtack Creative Studio. Earlier in her career, Pechet was a principal at Bain & Company, leading growth strategy for dozens of Fortune 500 consumer, tech, retail and restaurant companies. At Bain, her expertise included consumer segmentation, white space mapping/growth strategy, channel/distribution strategy, pricing/promotional ROI, sales force effectiveness and innovation strategy.
Pechet earned a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
About Thrivent
Thrivent is a Fortune 500 financial services company that helps build, grow and protect financial well-being through purpose-driven advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs. Thrivent serves more than 2.4 million clients through thousands of financial advisors across the country and has more than $212 billion in assets under management/advisement (as of 12/31/25). Thrivent carries strong financial ratings from independent rating agencies - including AM Best, Moody's and S&P Global Ratings - which demonstrate the company’s financial strength, stability and ability to pay claims. Ratings don't apply to investment product performance and more information can be found on each rating agency's website. For more information about Thrivent, visit