Biography

Ramon Jones was appointed to our Board of Directors in December 2023 and serves on our Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Jones' experience includes more than 25 years of marketing leadership, digital transformation, and operations at scale. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company, from November 2019 until his retirement in March 2025. As CMO, Mr. Jones was responsible for brand and marketing strategy, advertising, creative services, social media, and corporate communications for an enterprise that achieved record total sales of $70 billion in 2024. He led the transformation of Nationwide's marketing organization by implementing a digital-first strategy that drove record growth, and modernized the company's customer acquisition capabilities, including by addressing the impact of cookie deprecation by leading the transition to cookieless attribution and measurement solutions. Mr. Jones joined Nationwide in 2000 and held progressively senior roles including Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communications (2016-2019) and Regional Operations Vice President (2012-2016).

Prior to Nationwide, Mr. Jones was a Manager in Accenture's Financial Services Strategy Practice, advising major insurance carriers on customer segmentation, distribution channel strategy, and digital transformation. In November 2025, Mr. Jones was appointed to the board of directors of MediaAlpha, Inc. (NYSE: MAX), a leading programmatic advertising platform for insurance and financial services. Additionally, he serves on the board of directors of the Columbus Regional Airport Authority, where he is a member of the Finance & Audit Committee and the Air Service & Customer Experience Committee, and he serves on the board of the Mount Carmel Health System. Mr. Jones is a Founding Member of the Black Executive CMO Alliance (BECA) and a member of the Executive Leadership Council. He has been recognized as an Adweek Brand Genius (2023), Adweek Marketing Vanguard (2024), and was named to the Adweek 50 list of leaders in marketing, media, and technology (2021). Mr. Jones holds FINRA Series 6 and Series 26 licenses. He holds a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Villanova University.

Our Board of Directors believes that Mr. Jones possesses specific attributes and experience that qualify him to serve as a director, including his experience as a C-suite executive leading the marketing function of a Fortune 100 publicly traded company; expertise in brand strategy, digital marketing, customer acquisition, and marketing technology; perspective as an advertiser and buyer of programmatic media; and his service on other public company and institutional boards.