Jake Whitman

Jake is the founder and Managing Partner of Ludlow Capital. He brings more than a decade of executive management, marketing, and operations experience as a business executive at both large and mid-sized companies and a founder of two businesses. His journey has taught him the importance of passion, integrity, grit, and commitment when working to build something great, and has led him to his search to acquire and operate a business in Cincinnati.

Prior to Ludlow Capital, Jake worked at SoFi, a $4.5B financial tech company, as the Head of Marketing for SoFi Money, one of SoFi’s fastest growing products. He owned all aspects of the customer relationship, product positioning, acquisition marketing, and data analysis, and more than doubled the product’s user base in less than a year.

Before SoFi, he worked at Intuit on the corporate marketing team, leading an organization working on a multi-billion-dollar opportunity that required strengthening the Intuit brand and driving stronger awareness of its value proposition.

Jake also spent several years at Procter & Gamble as a Brand Director and Brand Manager. He led both long-term strategy and day to day business operations on brands like Gillette and Old Spice, managing P&Ls with well over $100M in annual sales and profit and leading major global product launches.

Finally, Jake is the author and publisher of Destination Teach For America, which helps people navigate the rigorous Teach For America admissions process, and was the Founder/Executive Director of STARS - Sports Teaching and Reaching Students, a non-profit that supports low-income student athletes in Philadelphia.

Jake was born and raised in Cincinnati. He grew up in Clifton and graduated from Walnut Hills High School. He’s a 5.0 level tennis player, loves to mountain bike and snowboard on the weekends, and travel the world when he has the time. He’s also the proud fiancé to his favorite person in the world, Grace Smith, and the father to a little corgi named Pistachio.