Our Team

NIB Direct Leadership

Vice President of Revenue

Emanuel Oncu

Vice President of Strategy

Corey O’Neal

President & Chief Operating Officer

Matt Stansell

Vice President of Revenue

Emanuel Oncu

Emanuel is a seasoned revenue driver and relationship builder with over 20 years of experience developing, implementing, and analyzing strategic and tactical revenue management initiatives to facilitate growth for clients and the companies he helps lead. His ability to build trusting relationships in the Mass Tort world is a testament to his professional acumen coupled with his commitment to helping business partners, who often become friends, accelerate growth amid the complexities of the legal industry. This sense of purpose has enabled Emanuel to personally achieve annual sales production well into 8 figures.

Emanuel’s competitive drive and entrepreneurial spirit has led him to attain key leadership roles at LendingTree where he helped grow revenue in excess of $6 billion, and at Freedom Mortgage where he was instrumental in spearheading revenue growth from zero to $130 million in their first year. He is also a co-founder of Snapdocs, a leading digital mortgage closing solution. His expertise includes optimizing sales and operational divisions to maximize revenue and profit, leading growth of the sales pipeline, and focusing on expansion to new customer segments while strengthening sales performance.

Emanuel thrives in a fast-paced, analytical, and high-energy environment. His passions include German engineering, Scottish spirits, and Swiss timepieces.

Vice President of Strategy

Corey O’Neal

Corey O’Neal brings over 20 years of diverse digital media leadership, media planning and buying, and team building experience to NIB Direct. He has worked in all areas of digital marketing and has a thorough understanding of all moving parts of the business. His mastery of end-to-end lead generation allows Corey to focus on building programs to exceed the specific goals of each client.

Entrepreneurial at heart, Corey’s background includes owning and operating two digital agencies. At OUTFOX Media his focus was on scalable lead generation through partnerships and owned and operated websites. With OEI Labs, Corey’s efforts were directed at building, monetizing, and marketing lead generation web properties. These experiences have given him the strategic online media experience, and leadership and team building knowledge he needs to help drive growth and profitability for the specialized legal client base of NIB Direct.

An avid outdoorsman, Corey enjoys the unique lifestyle that sunny San Diego offers him and his family. He is an avid supporter of ChildFund International.

President & Chief Operating Officer

Matt Stansell

Matt Stansell comes to NIB Direct with more than 20 years of team building and operational expertise. A tireless worker, Matt has a reputation for remaining calm when faced with adversity, making him ideal for NIB Direct’s leadership team. His training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts (he won 2006 King of the Cage Welterweight World Champion) prepared him well for corporate executive success. He has trained thousands of San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies and was named 2008 Martial Arts Masters Hall of Fame Coach of the Year.

Matt has launched two thriving restaurant chains, Pieology and Project Pie, as an operations specialist. Later, as VP of Sales & Strategic Partnerships for Wizely Financial, he grew enterprise relationships by 25% and increased sales by 68% in just 7 months. In his role at NIB Direct, Matt focuses on hiring and nurturing talent to lead each division, with the support and tools necessary to achieve the company’s mission.

Matt is a devoted husband and father, who enjoys training and coaching MMA fighters to succeed in the octagon.