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Jody Farmer: Vice President, Strategic Marketing Jody Farmer
Vice President, Strategic Marketing

Jody Farmer is Vice President, Strategic Marketing for CreditCards.com. Jody has extensive experience in consumer credit, banking, mortgages and credit cards. Jody is frequently interviewed on national and local television and radio, as well as in print.

Prior to joining CreditCards.com, Jody served as Director of eBusiness for Dell Financial Services, the credit and leasing arm of Dell, Inc. His previous experience includes ecommerce marketing leadership roles at NextCard, the first online issuer of Visa and MasterCard and Citibank. Jody holds a BA in Accounting from Baylor University, and an MBA from Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University. He is a CPA in the state of Texas.

Ben Woolsey: Director, Public Relations Ben Woolsey
Director, Marketing and Consumer Research

Mr. Woolsey, a seasoned expert on credit card consumer, product and industry trends, is Director of Marketing and Consumer Research for CreditCards.com, the leading online credit card marketplace that helps consumers make smart credit card choices. Mr. Woolsey's perspective is gained from a 20-year financial services career, which has included the design of credit card reward programs and the marketing of consumer and business credit cards for several of the nation's largest issuers.

Prior to joining CreditCards.com, Mr. Woolsey held marketing positions with Bank One, First USA, Associates First Capital and MCorp.

Woolsey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and an MBA from the University of Arkansas.

Dan Ray: Editor-in-Chief Dan Ray
Editor-in-Chief

Daniel P. Ray is editor in chief of CreditCards.com. Dan has spent 10 years immersed in the personal finance field, and has developed expertise in how credit, debt, mortgages and banking issues affect consumers. He's been extensively quoted in print, and interviewed many times on radio and television.

Before founding the editorial department of CreditCards.com in 2007, he spent nearly a decade at Bankrate.com, including six years as editor in chief, during which time he won three Society of American Business Editors and Writers awards. He also was a regular guest on a local television station's personal finance segment, and was the voice of Bankrate's "Personal Finance Minute," a syndicated radio segment.

Dan earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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