Rob joined Orr Associates, Inc. (OAI) as Managing Director in June 2005 after years of service in federal and state government, as a marketing executive, and as a political and charitable fundraiser. Among the many clients he has served since joining OAI, Rob has managed capital campaign strategic planning teams for The Salvation Army, National Capital Area Command and the Metropolitan Club Preservation Foundation; he has served as the outsourced chief development officer for the Deafness Research Foundation and The Writer's Center; Interim Executive Director for the Friends of the National Library of Medicine; and he has led marketing and production teams for successful fundraising galas and conferences for the Center for Security Policy and Project HOPE. In the Fall of 2007, Rob was selected to participate in the Greater Washington Board of Trade's invitation-only Executive Networks program.

Immediately before joining OAI, Rob served on Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich's staff as Director of Federal Grants and, prior to that, as the Assistant Secretary for Tourism, Film and the Arts where Rob oversaw the state's tourism marketing operation, the Maryland Film Office and the Maryland State Arts Council.

Before his stretch in state government, Rob was a governmental affairs and marketing consultant in Washington, DC, representing Fortune 500 clients and organizations involved in financial services and the pharmaceutical industries, among others.

Rob also has a considerable background in political fundraising, having served as Finance Chairman of the Maryland Republican Party, as Vice Chairman of a number of Bush-Cheney fundraising events during the 2000 and 2004 election cycles, as Co-Chairman of the Ehrlich-Steele Inaugural Committee and as Finance Director of the Florida Republican Party.

From 1995 to 1999, Rob was Vice President of the Bristol Marketing Group in Alexandria, VA, where he developed and implemented marketing plans and managed large events for various private sector and non-profit organizations. In 1996, Rob took a leave of absence from the firm to work for Lamar Alexander for President (Lamar!) as Senior Advisor for Communications, having responsibility for all campaign events and logistics in New Hampshire and a number of other states.

From 1989 to 1992, Rob served in the Administration of President George H. W. Bush as a congressional affairs assistant to Commerce Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher and before that was responsible for managing congressional relations and activities for the 1989 Presidential Inauguration and 1988 Bush campaign.

Rob has an MBA in Marketing and Organizational Management from the George Washington University, where he was selected a Bryce Harlow Scholar. He serves on various charitable boards, mostly as a fundraiser, and was recently re-elected to the Alumni Association Board of his alma mater, St. Albans School, in Washington, DC, where he also serves as Annual Giving Decade Captain as part of STA's $80 million+ Centennial Capital Campaign.

A native Washingtonian, Rob likes to read, write, and play golf and ice hockey. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife, Ronnie, and their son, Mac, and daughter, Addie.