Founding Partners

Built by operators who see the signal in the mess.

Signal Foundry is a partnership of operators, not advisors. Aaron Kelly and Thomas Obrey find the fragmented markets, surface the buried operator pain, and turn market noise into intelligence operating layers people can actually run a business on.

Every foundry line starts the same way. Sit inside the mess, find the signal, build the system.

Aaron Kelly, Partner at Signal Foundry.

Aaron Kelly

Partner, Signal Foundry

Aaron is the builder behind Signal Foundry. He turns fragmented industries, messy workflows, and scattered data into vertical intelligence platforms operators can actually run a business on.

After more than two decades building inside digital strategy, commerce, and vertical markets — including a successful digital agency exit in 2023 — Signal Foundry is his next move: find the broken workflow, extract the signal, and build the operating layer the market is missing.

Thomas Obrey, Partner at Signal Foundry.

Thomas Obrey

Partner, Signal Foundry

Co-founder of PixelMEDIA, later RafterOne, acquired by IPG, Thomas built and led one of the most respected product design and commerce practices in the ecosystem. He brings what few advisors can: genuine operator experience, a builder's instinct, and the hard-won perspective that only comes from having done it, at scale, for 30+ years.

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Bring Us the Mess

If your org runs on chaos, we want to hear from you.

If your organization is held together by spreadsheets, meetings, PDFs, tribal knowledge, and heroic manual reporting — bring us the mess. We will help turn it into an operating layer.