Spotlighting Supporters

Ronnie Cameron is a proud husband and father of two boys. As a Monarch in 2011, Ronnie earned Six All-American distinctions his senior season as he led the Monarchs to a 10-3 overall mark. He was also named CAA Defensive Player of the Year, CAA Student Athlete of the Year and First Team All CAA. Ronnie was the first Monarch to make an NFL roster and had brief stints with Cleveland Browns & Philadelphia Eagles. After earning his MBA during his senior season at ODU he went on to have a successful career in technology & business, with roles at Deloitte, Uber & Afterpay. Ronnie is currently a product executive at Meta leading Age Assurance & Youth Regulatory Readiness, partnering with governments around the world to keep children safe on the internet. Ronnie is also an Aspen Institute Business & Society Fellow focusing on improving society through corporate entrepreneurship. He lives in San Francisco with his family and checks ODU football scores while spending Saturdays in the fall at local parks.

Looking back on your time as a Monarch, what lessons from ODU Football have stayed with you throughout your professional career?

Relentless pursuit of excellence and grit are necessary when trying to separate yourself from others whether it’s in sports or in the professional world. Understanding what great looks like and emulating those behaviors every day. 

What inspired you to establish the Cameron Family Football Endowed Scholarship, and what do you hope it provides for future student-athletes?

As I’ve progressed in my career, I’ve been extremely fortunate. I was the beneficiary of the Luke Hillier endowed scholarship, and I always knew I wanted to pass that down to another ODU monarch. I put this scholarship in the name of my family because of how much my family was a part of my PDU experience, driving 8 hours to every home game from NY and flying to every away game. My family was just as committed as I was and so I wanted to make sure this scholarship reflected them. 

Now serving on the ODAF Board, what excites you most about supporting Old Dominion Athletics at this stage of your life?

College sports are going through a transformational period with NIL and the changing landscape of conference realignment. I’m hopeful I can merge my experience as an athlete and now as a technology professional to push ODAF forward. I believe ODAF’s efforts can be modernized with AI and become closer to the direction student athletes are moving.

What’s your favorite memory of ODU Athletics?

Easy. Beating JMU 23-20 in 2011. We played an amazing game on defense and beat the #9 team in the country. This put us in a position to make it to the playoffs. I had one of my better games and it was just a special night at SB Ballard stadium.

If you could describe ODU in one word, what would it be? And why?

Community. The amount of pride that the campus, alumni and Norfolk community felt about the school and its sports program was special and something I’ll always remember about my time at ODU.