About Us

Joel Ohman, Chief Executive Officer

Brandon Halprin, Chief Financial Officer

Brandon has worked as a CFO for two prior private equity-backed companies and has extensive experience with leadership of all finance functions. He has performed due diligence and provided financial guidance to senior management leading to strategic acquisitions and other key business transactions and is comfortable designing forecasting and integration models for M&A activity. He has been involved in multiple equity funding rounds with institutional capital and is comfortable creating reporting structures to enhance communication with key stakeholders. Brandon holds an MBA from the University of South Florida.

Paul Stanco, Chief Marketing Officer

Paul has over 20 years of experience in performance marketing using data-driven insights to deliver on performance and growth objectives.

Prior to joining Quote.com, Paul spent 8 years with HealthPlanOne, a Medicare brokerage, where he led marketing and product development, helping the company grow revenue over 10x and launching one of the first e-commerce sites for shopping and enrollment in Medicare plans.

Before HealthPlanOne, he spent 12 years building and growing consumer subscription service businesses at Affinion and Webloyalty.

At Affinion, Paul established a new, direct-to-consumer business unit, setting strategy and managing execution, ultimately bringing to market the company’s flagship consumer credit reporting product using a multi-channel marketing approach.

Paul holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA from New York University.

Anand Iyer, Chief Technology Officer

As a seasoned Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with a proven track record, Anand is a strategic leader at the intersection of data and business, dedicated to transforming organizations through advanced analytics and data-driven decision-making. With a comprehensive understanding of analytics strategy, data governance, and technology implementation, he brings expertise in extracting actionable insights from complex datasets. His leadership extends to fostering collaboration across departments, driving innovation, and effectively communicating analytical findings to diverse stakeholders.

Prior to his current role, Anand built/optimized in-house metrics process and analytics platform at Meta (formerly Facebook), led performance marketing & product teams at companies like Angi, Everquote and eBay. Anand holds MS in Computer Engineering and MBA from The Ohio State University.

Nick Stommes, Chief Strategy Officer

Nick is an experienced strategic leader and results-focused executive with a proven track record of driving successful business and M&A outcomes as a corporate executive, private equity investor, and board director. For nearly his entire career, Nick has worked with growth-oriented middle market companies to drive enterprise value creation, growth, and profitability via strategy development, process implementation, and continuous process improvement. He has more than 14 years of experience leading and executing M&A transactions and has served for 5 years as a board member of middle market companies in the business and media services, education & training, and healthcare markets.

He comes to Quote.com from Omnicell (NASDAQ:OMCL), a leader in healthcare technology and analytics, where he served as Senior Director of Corporate Development and led both domestic and international cross-functional teams in executing M&A and strategic alternatives initiatives. Previously, Nick spent 9 years as a private equity investor at multiple firms, which included scaling a private equity firm from startup to 6 platform companies in 5 years. Nick began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Harris Williams & Co., where he executed numerous sell-side M&A transactions.

Nick holds a BSB in Finance and Mathematics with an Accounting minor from the University of Minnesota, where he completed the Honors program and played defensive back on the Golden Gopher football team. He also holds an MBA with Beta Gamma Sigma academic honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Erich Garcia, Senior Vice President of Paid Media

With over a decade of performance marketing experience focused on Paid Search and Programmatic Marketing, Erich heads up Paid Marketing for Quote.com. Prior to his current role Erich spent time running performance Programmatic Media for brands like: Mercari, 1-800-Contacts, Consumer Cellular and Head Space. Before heading toward Agency work Erich had stops at publicly traded companies like QuinStreet as well as in-house work for brands like Harley-Davidson North America driving performance campaigns in Paid Search, Display and Video.

Outside of work Erich can be found at wineries across the PNW, golfing, volunteering or spending time with his Wife and animal friends.

Joseph Ariaz, Senior Vice President of Engineering

Joseph has become the leading product, design, and development engineer in the insuretech space with 15 years of experience in the lead generation businesses, specializing in UI/UX of consumer-facing product funnels. His designs and infrastructure have been used to power paid media campaigns for $100M businesses.  Key to Joseph’s success has been his deep acumen in data analysis and split testing which has resulted in best-in-class click-through and conversion rates through an iterative approach. Joseph joins Quote.com as VP of Product, responsible for all of Quote.com’s consumer funnels across the portfolio of domains and verticals.

Ben Moe, Board Member

Ben is Managing Director of Osceola Capital and oversees all investment activities including origination, evaluation, and execution of investments. He has completed over 65 M&A transactions to date across a wide variety of industries. Previously, Ben served as CEO of Avesta Asset Management, a private equity firm focused on value-add multifamily real estate investments.  Before Avesta, he was CFO of Advantage Waypoint, an outsourced business services company, where he helped lead the acquisition of 24 businesses before an eventual sale to Apax Partners.  Ben also spent six years in the investment banking groups of Bear Stearns and Raymond James and five years as a United States Air Force officer and hospital administrator. Ben earned an MBA from Duke University and a BS with Distinguished Graduate designation from the United States Air Force Academy. Ben lives in Tampa with his wife and two sons and enjoys fishing and snowboarding.

Brad Pence, Board Member

Brad is Principal of Plexus Capital and focuses on fund management, financial modeling, transaction structuring, due diligence, and portfolio monitoring. Previously, Brad served at WestEnd Advisors, an investment advisory firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he gained experience in financial analysis, macroeconomic research, and memorandum preparation to support the firm’s investment team. Brad is a graduate of the University of North Carolina where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Political Science.

Joel Ohman, Chief Executive Officer

Joel is a serial entrepreneur and author with a number of prior tech company exits. He’s led the company to 5x EBITDA growth and has been on the buy-side and sell-side of over 30 M&A transactions throughout his career. He has an MBA from the University of South Florida and a Master’s of Divinity from SEBTS. He serves on the board of the Tampa Bay Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Chairman of Trustees of The Idlewild Foundation, and a number of other boards. Joel is also the author of the #1 bestselling Meritropolis series. He enjoys martial arts, reading, writing, and fishing with his kids.

Jason Owen, Board Advisor

Jason is an award-winning marketing executive and thought leader, who has nearly two decades of success at the intersection of bleeding-edge MarTech, search and social marketing, analytics-driven strategy, and high-impact business ecosystems. He currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at Array, the leading embeddable fintech for consumer credit. Previously, he shepherded the turnaround of Credit.com’s underperformance and piloted it to become a positive contribution brand and growth actuator for Progrexion’s portfolio. As VP of Marketing at Vivint, he directed marketing for the national inside sales arm of the largest smart home platform worldwide. Utah Business Magazine honored Jason with its vaunted “Sales and Marketer of the Year Award” (SAMY) in 2016. Jason has offered his marketing expertise at panels and to large companies, including Facebook, Affiliate Summit, LeadsCon, ClickZ, Search Engine Watch, and Search Engine Strategies.

Mark Fidel, Board Member

Mark Fidel is a successful entrepreneur with a proven track record of creating, building, and selling companies. As an industry-leading marketing and advertising executive, Mark’s performance-driven mentality has been the key to his biggest achievements.

In his most recent venture, Ring2Media, now a division of Quote.com, Mark led a team of seasoned individuals dedicated to effectively distributing advertisers’ cost-per-action (CPA) commercials across its network of television properties, including cable systems, syndicators, and national affiliates.

He is also co-founder of Guardian First Funding, which was ultimately sold to Knight Capital Group, and founder and business developer for VCOM.com, which was ultimately sold to Utility.com (Idealab). Mark enjoys family time, skiing, exercise, yoga, golfing, and listening to live music in his spare time.