About Us

Nick Stommes, Chief Executive 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 most of his career, Nick has worked with companies to drive profitability via strategy development, process implementation, and continuous improvement. He has more than 14 years of experience leading and executing M&A transactions and has served as a board member in the business and media services, education, and healthcare markets.

He was the Sr. Director of Corporate Development at Omnicell, a leader in healthcare technology, where he led teams in executing M&A and strategic initiatives. Previously, Nick spent 9 years as a private equity investor, which included scaling a firm from startup to 6 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. He holds a BSB in Finance and Mathematics with an Accounting minor from the University of Minnesota, where he completed the Honors program and holds an MBA with Beta Gamma Sigma academic honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tom Guidroz, Chief Financial Officer

Tom started his career in Big Four public accounting and has since built a successful track record as a CFO, working with middle and upper midmarket companies across various industries, including private equity-backed companies. He has deep experience in M&A due diligence, customized metric and KPI reporting, working capital management, financial forecasting, internal controls, and financial reporting. Tom is passionate about helping drive enterprise value as part of collaborative executive teams focused on strategy and best practices.

A CPA and CGMA, Tom holds a BS in Accounting with a Finance concentration from Nicholls State University. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with family and friends and exploring his love for photography.

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.

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.

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.

Joel Ohman, Executive Chairman

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.

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.

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.