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The following was submitted by the family of Gerald Roy Rondoe:
Gerald Roy Rondoe, age 83, died peacefully at home in Winchester, Mass. on May 7, 2026 after a courageous three-year struggle with the long-term effects of a hemorrhagic stroke — his beloved wife, Meg, at his side throughout.
He is loved by many, and will be greatly missed.
Roy was born and raised in Torrington, CT, the son of Isabelle (Pelletier) and Leon Rondoe.
He graduated from Torrington High School, and received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Ward College of Technology at the University of Hartford.
After working in Yale University’s Wright Laboratory on the Van de Graaff particle accelerator, Roy’s career took him to Perkin-Elmer in California to work on optical components for the Lockheed Corona satellite program, and eventually on to a long and very successful run at GenRad during the 1980s, residing in Tokyo running GenRad’s joint venture with Tokyo Electron Limited.
He taught himself to speak, read, and write Japanese and kept this skill all his life.
In 1994, Roy joined American Science and Engineering in Billerica, Mass., quickly breaking all previous corporate sales records with his technical and international experience. He went on to lead international sales teams at companies that included iRobot, GSI Group, and Block Engineering before starting his own LLC, consulting with overseas governments and industries and helping them to solve complex state security-related challenges utilizing very niche technical solutions that Roy had gained specific and unique expertise in.
Roy travelled all over the world throughout his career, and easily knew his way around places like Singapore, Munich, Cairo, Bogota. Wherever Roy traveled, he enthusiastically absorbed the local culture and especially the local food culture — which he joyfully shared with anyone and everyone back home.
Roy was sophisticated and worldly, but with a warm smile and open heart. He made friends easily and his love of food, his openness to new experiences, and his natural skill for making people feel immediately comfortable, endeared him to people he met wherever he went in the world.
Roy kept up those friendships and will be missed by so many.
He is survived by his loving wife of 30 years, Meg, his daughters Julia and Caitlin, and his beloved cats, Hector and Arthur-Gustav.
