About

Joel Ohman lives in Tampa, FL with his wife Angela and their three kids. His writing companion is Caesar, a slightly overweight Bull Mastiff who loves to eat the tops off of strawberries.

Joel is the author of the #1 bestselling Meritropolis series—“The Hunger Games meets The Village with a young Jack Reacher as a protagonist”.

Joel is a serial entrepreneur and author with a number of prior tech company exits. He is the CEO of a private equity backed digital media company, and has led the company to 5x EBITDA growth. He has been on the buy-side and sell-side of over 30 M&A transactions throughout his career. He is a Christian, CFP®, author, and serial entrepreneur who loves creating new things, whether books or businesses.

He is the founder of a number of web startups and currently serves as the CEO of Quote.com, a private equity backed digital media company in insuretech performance marketing, the co-founder and CEO of a B2B SaaS software company, Exercise.com, and has also previously served as the founder and resident CFP® of a national insurance agency and other insuretech related startups.

He has an undergraduate degree in Business from Clearwater Christian College, an MBA from the University of South Florida and a Master’s of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He loves the city of Tampa and is heavily involved in the community: he serves on the board of the Tampa Bay Fellowship of Christian Athletes, as a trustee and Chairman of the Idlewild Foundation, and is a deacon, missions trip leader, and Finance Committee member at Idlewild Baptist Church.

Some of his current companies and projects include:

Exercise.com – We are a B2B SaaS company with a fast-growing fintech payments platform for fitness businesses. We offer cloud-based fitness business management software on the web, iOS, and Android.

Quote.com – We are a PE-backed digital media and performance marketing insurtech brand marketplace.

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Joel has written for and been mentioned in many different online and print publications including AllBusiness.com, AOL.com, Banks.com, BusinessInsider.com, ChicagoTribune.com, Forbes, Inc.com, the LA Times, Newsweek.com, Reader’s Digest, WashingtonPost.com, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, WiseBread.com, Yahoo Finance, and many more as an expert source so don’t hesitate to contact him if you need a quick response for an article or project you are working on.

To learn more be sure to browse Joel’s books and visit the press page.