Built by an operator who has done this work before.

Jonathan Romley

Strathmore was founded by Jonathan Romley, an American entrepreneur whose career has centered on automation, artificial intelligence, compliance, and cross-border operations.

He has built and exited software and automation companies — including an RPA-based immigration-compliance business acquired by Randstad and an AI company acquired by Google — and has built and run operations across North America, Europe, and Asia.

That experience shapes how Strathmore works. We understand the work these businesses do — the documents, the reconciliations, the exceptions, the customer touchpoints — and the systems that make it lighter and more reliable. And because we’ve built companies ourselves, we know how much of a business’s value lives in its people and its customer relationships. Those are the first things we protect.

We wanted to build the buyer we’d want to sell to.

Over and over, the same pattern appears: a profitable, well-run B2B business, trusted by its customers, held together by spreadsheets and the founder’s relationships, with no successor and no systems layer. Strategic buyers tend to absorb and dismantle these companies. Traditional financial buyers often optimize them for resale. Brokers list them and move on.

We wanted to build the buyer we’d want to sell to: an operator that buys to keep, protects what works, modernizes carefully, and holds for the long term.