About The Theme Foundry
Beautiful handcrafted WordPress themes
At the core of every theme we release you will find some key ingredients: attention to detail, cleanliness, care, usability, and simplicity. We purposely don't focus on bells and whistles. We believe simple is beautiful.
The code we write is lean, concise, and easy to use and we don't build on top of complicated frameworks or add unnecessary features. Instead, we leverage the built-in power of WordPress to deliver clean, fast, lightweight themes that look great and are a snap to customize and use.
Meet the team
Founder / Theme Designer
Drew Strojny
Twitter // drewstrojny
Drew is usually busy designing themes, enjoying the fantastic weather in Boise, or on the couch watching romantic comedies with a box of tissues. Drew graduated from Duke University in 2003 with an A.B. in Philosophy and was pick number 203 of the 2004 NFL draft.
Operations / Customer Care
Jennifer Boydstun
Twitter // jboydstun
Jennifer is obsessed with helping Foundry customers, cheering on her Florida Gators, cooking up masterpieces in the kitchen, and stalking her friends on Facebook. She also happens to be an accounting ace and a budding photography superstar.
Support Guru / Theme Developer
Yan Sarazin
Twitter // statikpulse
Yan is a seasoned web developer hailing from Ottawa, Canada. When he isn't busy dropping bone-crushing checks in his ice hockey league or rabidly cheering on the Sens you will find him solving problems in the support forums and masterfully architecting theme code.
Our Story
Be sure to read The last 3 years if you want the full backstory (with photos and member comments).
The Theme Foundry was launched in September of 2008 with the release of our flagship WordPress theme, Vigilance. The project was originally known as Jestro Themes and lived on a sub-domain of jestro.com. We would later realize the original name and location were both short-sighted choices.
In March of 2009 we released Titan, our second theme, and re-designed our website. A few months later we changed the name to Themes by Jestro.
Towards the end of 2009 we released our third WordPress theme, Paperpunch (originally known as Punchcut), and once again re-designed the website to pave the way for more themes. At this point the project had outgrown "subdomain status" and in January of 2010 the name was officially changed to The Theme Foundry. The rest is history!