Our Team
Our Leaders
have one mission: creating a culture and strategy that allow the business to succeed today and in the future. We measure and value our team member engagement, financial strength and consumer satisfaction.
Jeff Hughes
CEO
About Jeff Hughes
As CEO, I focus on ensuring that CDM contributes to the overall success of Rocket Companies as effectively as possible. I originally joined the organization as a product manager, and subsequently have worked on and led multiple teams across the company. I love data but I lead with my heart. Outside of work, you can find me outdoors enjoying the sunny Southern California weather or on the couch at home watching soccer.
Angela Chen
VP, Finance
About Angela Chen
I got to know the team here when I was working for a sister company back in 2011. I officially joined the company in 2013. It’s been a great pleasure to learn and grow with the team here as a person, a professional and a leader. There is never a dull moment at work! Like many other finance professionals, I was an auditor my past life before I joined CDM. My team here at CDM manages all accounting, reporting and FP&A functions.
When I’m not at work crunching numbers, you’ll find me on my next travel adventure. I was bitten by the wanderlust bug years ago. I’m always looking forward to find my new favorite spot!
Yvette Ramos
SVP, Marketing
About Yvette Ramos
I joined CDM in 2003. It’s been exciting to be part of its growth and expansion. I started as a Media Buyer managing large strategic partnerships in the display ad marketing channel. I then moved into a leadership role and led our efforts to expand our reach across devices from desktop to mobile and across marketing channels, including display, social, search, and most recently, into content, organic, and influencers. My goal is to be in front of consumers wherever they are online – and provide them with the information and solutions they need. What I love about my job is that I constantly have the opportunity to creatively solve new challenging problems. I definitely enjoy getting into the details myself, but as a leader, I thrive on collaborating with the team and watching them generate and test new ideas. It’s important to me that I cultivate an environment where everyone feels trusted and can bring their true self to work. Outside of work, I’m usually watching my kids play sports, at the beach, or shopping.
Jon Ripper
SVP, Technology
About Jon Ripper
I joined CDM in 2005 supporting our Consumer Experience practice. It was and continues to be a unique capability of CDM – enabling data driven decisions based on end to end customer feedback. What drew me in and keeps me here is a business that appreciates the convergence of technology, commerce and creativity. During my time here, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and lead teams in Product, Marketing & Technology. I’m fortunate to be surrounded by a great team – and come in everyday to think strategically about how to drive outcomes with technology and data. In my spare time, I’m most likely to be working on some art, craft or music project with daughter.
Mitch Viner
General Counsel
About Mitch Viner
Generally speaking, my career plans were much more exciting when I was 5. Since that astronaut thing didn’t out, I try to spend my time putting out fires, helping people grow, and making sure that things are legal and documented. I am a part-time ninja with a fear of the dark. I know all 14 herbs and spices, but was sworn to secrecy.
I’m the SVP of Legal, Facilities, and People teams, and have been with the organization for over a decade. Starting out as counsel helping with marketing and affiliate contracts. Corporate generalist with a co-operative business focus, targeting the development and adoption of aggressive, growth and revenue focused internal sales processes, partner relations, OEM and channel negotiation and documentation, intellectual property and contract drafting.
I work with our Compliance team to ensure we’re up to date on all the latest rules. My work with our People and Facilities teams is to ensure that we have the best possible environment, to empower our team members to do their best work and reflect the best versions of themselves.
The best part about my job is coming in every day, to solve new puzzles and address new challenges with a team that likes what they do and comes to win.
When I’m not in the office, I’m taking on all the tasks of a parent of a tech-obsessed son, and two snack-obsessed pugs. I’m always around for a bad joke or a good restaurant recommendation.
CDM's Teams
collaborate to fuel innovation, optimization and continuously improve the solutions we offer to our consumers.
Team Product
Core Digital Media’s Product Team is passionate about building world-class experiences and products that help people achieve financial freedom. We are a cross-functional team responsible for product management, user experience (UX), and consumer research. The product team is responsible for determining product strategy, building product roadmaps, and defining innovative product features using a design-driven methodology. We value Product Managers who demonstrate leadership, ownership and data-driven decision making. We are a small, collaborative team that works to achieve the common outcome of creating exceptional digital products. Our stretch goals are to be the voice of our customers, to align with the larger organizational goals, to be continuously innovative, and to be a place for top performers that nurtures their career growth.
Team Technology
The CDM Technology Team is responsible for the development and operations of all the consumer-facing web applications and internal tools. Our products are in a constant state of evolution. We work tirelessly to optimize and enhance our experiences, increasingly so for mobile and other emerging platforms. Further innovation can be found in our marketing stack that empowers our marketing team to excel in online advertising. We drive the business by continuously improving our operational efficiency, security posture, and technology platform.
Our platform runs on a highly scalable, modern, cloud-based AWS infrastructure. We leverage the power of microservices in Java and popular frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, React, and NodeJS to build enterprise-class applications. And we use advanced monitoring tools such as Datadog, Splunk, and Dynatrace to support operational resiliency quickly. We approach new initiatives as opportunities to innovate and introduce technologies such as MongoDB, Zookeeper, Kafka, to keep our stack current and integrate to AWS services like Lambda, SQS, etc.
Team Data
Core Digital Media’s Data Team drives the business by creating a world-class data platform to provide analytical insight to all layers of our business. From marketing and consumer experience to product and sales, CDM’s commitment to analytical excellence is reflected in our data-driven values. Our data platform runs on a highly scalable, modern, cloud-based infrastructure. Our data engineers, data scientists, and analysts share a passion for extracting value from our investments in tools like Snowflake, Tableau, Attunity, Oracle, Microstrategy, Spark, Kafka, and comprehensive datasets like BlackKnight and Experian.
Team Marketing
Core Digital Media’s Marketing Team has one mission, to reach all current and aspiring homeowners in their preferred digital medium to drive awareness and engagement and improve their lives financially. We do this by bringing awareness and delivering valuable content through performance, organic, and relationship marketing across all digital mediums.
The marketing group is highly specialized and fully in-house. The team is responsible for full marketing construction and consultation from ad creative to A/B testing to analytics and reporting. We have been a top digital performance advertiser for over 2 decades.
CDM’s marketing team aims to help people make informed and confident decisions about their money by providing original content that is rigorously fact-checked by an experienced editor using recent, reputable and unbiased sources.
We are industry-leading experts by platform and function.
