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Jeff Wilcoxon is the Vice President Strategic Partnerships on Nationwide’s Corporate Development team. He and his team drive strategy and execution for strategic partnerships aimed at supporting business strategies and identifying new sources of value for Nationwide. The partnerships team is accountable for identifying prospective partners, structuring deals across a range of complexity, setting customer and business requirements for our partnership platform, and monitoring and delivering value from in-market partnerships over time.

Prior to this role, he was a Nationwide Corporate Strategy vice president supporting Corporate Development, Innovation, Marketing and Customer. Jeff joined Nationwide in 2017 from General Motors, where he led the Applied Insights & Innovation group for the Global Connected Consumer Experience team. Prior to GM, Jeff’s path included banking, entrepreneurship, operations consulting and strategy consulting. In his “spare time”, Jeff works with his brother by playing the roles of CFO and CMO for Johnson’s Real Ice Cream, a company founded by their great- grandfather and grandfather in 1950. He also enjoys tennis and traveling with his wife and four kids.

Jeff has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, cum laude, with a minor in Business Administration from Vanderbilt University, and a Master of Business Administration focused on Operations and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

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