Jodi Ashton

I come from people who built things meant to last.

My great-grandfather took a chance no one else would. Kroger didn’t want a store in New Vienna, Ohio — so he left Kroger, bet on his own town, and opened Streber’s Market. That store anchored Main Street for the better part of a century, passing from my great-grandfather to my grandfather to my dad and my uncle.

I grew up in that store — stocking shelves, carrying out groceries, and cleaning the meat cooler in the back, where the meat was cut and the hamburger ground fresh every single day. And the land runs just as deep: my great-uncles still farm the two family farms that came down from my great-grandmother’s side. Grocery and ground, Main Street and farm field — that’s the family I come from, and it’s exactly what Omega exists to protect.

I trained as a CPA and earned my MBA, and I spent years learning the tools of institutional finance — the same leverage and structures that, too often, are used to take businesses apart. I kept watching good companies and family farms get sold off, carved up, or stripped of the very things that made them worth building. I became convinced those same tools could be used to do the opposite.

That conviction is Omega Preservation Equity. We acquire established American businesses and farms and we hold them — preserving the people, the culture, and the name that made them worth building. And what these businesses earn, we point toward a purpose beyond returns: funding Christ-centered, transformational education for families across the country. Preserve what lasts in a business; fund what lasts in a child.

I run Omega as a principal, not a faceless fund. I read every inquiry myself, and I work alongside a trusted network of advisors, operators, lenders, and partners who share this way of thinking. If you’re weighing what comes next for something you’ve spent a lifetime building, I’d be glad to talk — in confidence, and without a clock running.

— Jodi Ashton