Thank you for taking the time to visit my personal blog. My name is John Boudreau. I am the Founder and COO of Astonish.

After graduating from Gordon College in 1992 with a degree in chemistry, I began my career as an environmental analytical chemist and eventually became a laboratory director. This position involved solving complex, multivariate analytical problems by providing analytical services to wide variety of environmental engineering firms.

In addition to a deep interest in science, I’ve always loved business consulting and especially real estate investing. In 1995, I started investing in real estate, both commercial and residential. By 2004 I was able to generate enough cash flow and leave my position as laboratory director.

This gave me extra time to begin my next venture, Ion Marketing Group, a digital marketing company focused on the real estate industry. Ion created a custom database that utilized the data feed from Rhode Island’s multiple listing service. This allowed real estate agencies to serveup property data on their websites and win more customers. After a years time, Ion had 90% of the largest brokerages in Rhode Island as clients. You can check out some of the sites which is still live over 7 years later – www.prudentialgammonsrealty.com and Remax Newport.

In 2006, I sold Ion and founded Astonish. As COO, my role involves oversight of the growth of Astonish and making sure we’re accomplishing our corporate goals and achieving our mission – to change our clients’ lives by changing their businesses.

In September of 2011, Astonish partnered with a private equity firm, Serent Capital.

In 2012 Astonish was voted #267 on the Inc 500

I am a life long learner and one of my main life principles is teachability. I have a passion  for understanding how things work (which is why I have a degree in chemistry) and am a clock builder (check out what that means here ). I am driven to build a company that has a positive and lasting impact on the customers we serve.

You can watch me speaking on creating a culture of execution here.

I am married to Jodi and father to three beautiful children, Daphne, Grey and Owen.

Please feel free to contact me using the form on the right or email me at jhboudreau_at_ astonish_dot_com