A family office built to own and grow businesses for the long term.

Montlake Partners is a combined family office founded by Paul Judy and Todd Owens in Seattle, Washington. After more than two decades of working together across multiple businesses, we formed Montlake to acquire, protect, and grow a diversified group of operating companies — not to buy and sell them, but to be their permanent home.

We are structured as a permanent-capital holding company, backed by our own resources rather than a fund with a fixed life. That lets us hold companies for decades, reinvest patiently, and make decisions based on what is best for the business, its people, and its customers — not what is needed to meet an exit timeline.

We look for well-run, profitable businesses, often from founders and families preparing for a transition. For an owner who has spent a career building something, how the business is passed on matters as much as the price. We protect that legacy by keeping the company’s name, people, and customer relationships intact and building on the foundation the seller created.