Romeo Spino
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| Born | Romeo Spino January 14, 1978 Beaufort, South Carolina, U.S. |
| 🏡 Residence | Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🌐 Website | romeospino |
Romeo Spino (born Romeo Spino; January 14, 1978) is an American entrepreneur, speaker, and Active CEO of StratasCorp, a corporation that services both the government and public sector with information technology and digital creative media services.[1][2]
Early Life[edit]
Although Romeo was born in Beaufort, South Carolina he considers himself to be from all over. He grew up as a military brat whose father served over 20 years in the United States Marine Corps and his childhood growing up in Japan, Hawaii, North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.[3]
Romeo considers himself a “purebred entrepreneur” beginning a business at the age of ten selling golf balls at the 9th hole of golf courses to golfers who lost them in the brush and water hazards. He would visit the local golf courses and crawl through the bushes to gather golf balls and then ride his bicycle to the local grocery store where he would collect broken egg cartons and clean them to package the golf balls in sets of six or twelve and sell them to the golfers for .25 cents per ball.[3]
At the age of twelve Romeo started his own lawn care service where he would mow the lawns for military wives whose husbands were deployed overseas. He would offer lawn cutting services two times a month per house and would additionally offer a free service to water their lawns to make sure the grass would always grow so that he was able to cut the lawns of each house twice a month to maintain a steady income.[4]
At the age of fifteen moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when his father retired from the military and began a snow shoveling business throughout during the winter seasons where he shoveled driveways and walkways for individuals to walk and park their cars.[3]
From the ages of sixteen to twenty Romeo worked as a stock clerk at a local Italian deli market located in Jeannette, Pennsylvania where he began to learn the process of how to build a business. This is where he learned that customer service is vital to the legacy of any business. He later worked his means into merchandising, where he began his knowledge of how to market merchandise to attract consumer attention and retention to help grow sales.[3]
From the ages of 21-25 Romeo became a sale representative for the same Italian deli market and began traveling the United States selling imported Italian food products to large national grocery retailers and distributors. After a few short years, he became a regional sales manager for the southwest region. He was responsible for training national brokers how to sell and market his products, encompassing seven states.[3]
Career[edit]
After moving to Virginia Beach, Virginia in 2004[3], Romeo decided to change his career and started an information technology company with a friend specializing in training government military members and contractors in various information technology fields. Three years later Romeo sold his shares of the company and worked for numerous IT companies servicing the government.[3]
StratasCorp[edit]
In 2015, at the age thirty eight, Romeo decided to start his own company, StratasCorp, and never looked back over his shoulder. Romeo is the active CEO of StratasCorp and oversees each division of Stratas Tech and Stratas Media Group. In only three short years after starting his company, Romeo has captured over $200 million in revenue and with a workforce of over 300 employees worldwide.[1]
Stratas Tech[edit]
In 2015[5], Romeo founded Stratas Tech which provides information technology services and a cadre of certified and experienced personnel who are subject matter experts specializing in C4/IT Command, Control, Communications, Computers, information technology servicing the Department of Defense (DoD).[6]
Stratas Media Group[edit]
In 2015, Romeo founded Stratas Media Group, a full-service strategic and creative agency specializing in public videography, set design, and web design.[7]
The Culture Of Business[edit]
In 2019, after spending three years building his own personal brand with his content production team, Romeo launched a new podcast series called “The #Culture_Of_Business”. On the podcast, Romeo talks with entrepreneurs, and people who are in the sports and entertainment industry, regarding their personal journey of how their own individual culture, work ethic, and mindset plays an important part of their process when building a brand or business.[8]
Awards and Honors[edit]
- 2017: Entrepreneur Excellence Awards, by Inside Business[9]
- 2016: Top 40 Under Forty, by Inside Business[10]
- 2013: Distinguished Young AFCEAN, by AFCEA[11]
Personal life[edit]
Romeo currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia where he enjoys working on his fitness goals with CrossFit and taking care of his English Bulldog.[10]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "INTERVIEW: STRATASCORP's Romeo Spino". Vents Magazine. 2019-04-17. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ Spino, Romeo. "Why your HR department is more important than you think | Expert column". Virginian-Pilot. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "My Story". Romeo Spino. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ PRESS, BMG. "How One CEO Built a 6-Million-Dollar Company in Two Years". PRLog. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ "StratasTech | Your Essential Technology Partner". StratasTech. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ "STRATASTECH EXPANDS UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITIES TO SUPPORT U.S. AFRICOM C4S SYSTEMS". StratasCorp. 2018-04-24. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ "Stratas Media Group | Strategic Media Consulting". Stratas Media Group. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ "The Culture of Business". The Culture of Business. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ "Romeo D. Spino, president, CEO of Stratascorp Technologies 2017 Entrepreneurial Excellence Award". Inside Business . 8 June 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "2016 Top 40 Under 40 honoree: Romeo Spino". Inside Business . 11 October 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- ↑ "Distinguished Young AFCEAN (DYA) 2013 Winners". AFCEA . Retrieved 30 May 2019.
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