WorthPoint Corporation Adds Full-Time Accountant and Editor

Sandy Springs-based WorthPoint Corporation has added two staff members to the company’s growing employee base.

Rebecca Seippel joins WorthPoint in the dual role of staff accountant and content creator, and Kele Johnson joins as full-time writer and editor.

Seippel joined the WorthPoint team in May. She is a recent graduate with high honors from Georgia Tech with a degree in applied languages and intercultural studies and a minor in accounting. She received the Outstanding Senior Award in Japanese presented by Tech’s Department of Modern Languages, a special recognition based on merit, campus involvement, and study of an international language including activities in Japan.

In addition to assisting WorthPoint’s financial team and studying Japanese art through Harvard University online courses, Seippel is working with a group of subject matter experts to build a comprehensive directory on Japanese pottery, metal-edged weapons, scrolls that will launch on WorthPoint.com in late 2020. Fluent in Japanese, she is a resident of Roswell, Ga.

Johnson started at WorthPoint in December as a part-time contributing writer, later promoted to full-time writer, and named full-time editor this month. She is the author of several “Great Discoveries” articles published in the WorthPoint Insider newsletter, and writes on assigned topics for the Worthopedia Price Guide and WorthPoint Dictionary, for which she also conducts research. She is also contributing to special projects related to the company’s auction house database.

An avid collector with a degree in anthropology and a minor in Native American history from the University of Wyoming, Johnson is based in Terrell, Texas.

WorthPoint Corporation manages the largest online resource for researching, valuing, and preserving antiques, art, and collectibles. The company’s suite of offerings on WorthPoint.com includes a price guide, a resource gallery for identifying maker’s marks, autographs, patterns, and symbols (M.A.P.S.), and a digital library with over 1,300 books on collectible topics. Through data aggregated from online marketplaces including eBay and leading auction houses, WorthPoint empowers the antiques and collectibles industry by providing a steady stream of new data each month, building on 520 million archived prices and more than 2.4 billion images to improve pricing transparency for sellers and buyers. Based in Atlanta, WorthPoint has subscribers on six continents.