Steve Orr is the Managing Partner and co-founder of OAI along with Carol Orr. Prior to founding the company, Steve was an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co. In 1991, he combined his 12 years on Wall Street with his social conscience to create strategic partnerships between profit and nonprofit organizations. His wife and partner, Carol Orr, joined OAI using her extensive event management experience to create a leading production capability that for 16 years has produced some of the largest and most effective nonprofit events in the country.

OAI has expanded its services to include strategic planning, board development, development management, campaign management and nonprofit management, in addition to its very successful event management focus. Examples include:

• Steve helped establish the National Mentoring Partnership in 1991 while at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and subsequently helped raise a cumulative $30 million for the organization over the next decade.
• In 1994, Steve founded Youth, I.N.C. (Improving Non-profits for Children) and currently serves as the Executive Director. Through Steve’s leadership over the last 14 years, the organization has built partnerships with 75 youth programs in New York City and raised over $15 million for these youth programs. In October 2007, Steve appeared on CNBC’s “Fast Money” to help promote the powerful work of Youth, I.N.C. which serves 100,000 kids in New York City.
• Joe Robert, of J.E. Robert Companies, tapped Steve, Carol and OAI to create School Night, a premier Washington, DC event that has raised several million dollars to fund scholarships for local youth.
• In 2000, Joe Piscopo and friend Raymond Chambers turned to OAI to manage Joe's nonprofit, the Positive Impact Foundation (PIF). Steve serves as Executive Director and holds a position on its board. PIF secured a $1 million grant from Enterasys to network schools and nonprofits, helping thousands of kids in New Jersey, in addition to providing many other services for youth. PIF routinely hosts entertainment events in Atlantic City and elsewhere in New Jersey and New York City.
• The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF), established in 1958, retained OAI and Steve as Executive Director to manage the entire enterprise, from fundraising, research grants administration to financial and database management. DRF is the leading research grant-making nonprofit organization in the country supporting deafness issues.
• Mrs. Ethel Kennedy asked Steve and Carol to manage the RFK Memorial's development efforts in New York and Washington, DC. To date, OAI has assisted in raising over $5 million for the RFK Memorial.
• Steve has worked with numerous health charities including the National Sleep Foundation, Lupus Foundation, National Osteoporosis Foundation, Alzheimer's Foundation, American Red Cross, Operation Smile, American Geriatrics Society and United Cerebral Palsy, among others.
• Deutsche Bank North America (DNBA) tapped Steve to formalize and create a strategic plan for the DBNA Foundation and Senator Jon Corzine retained Steve to structure his family foundation.
• OAI regularly works with senior executives from many of the large pharmaceutical companies, Wall Street firms, Washington DC think tanks, entertainment conglomerates and consumer companies across the country; however, Steve is particularly focused on New York City, Washington, DC and Los Angeles.
• OAI's international focus has expanded considerably as Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan retained OAI to organize and form a strategic plan and build both the international and domestic boards for the King Hussein Foundation International. Both the American Friends of the Czech Republic and the American Bar Association for the Europe and Eurasia Program retained OAI to manage multiple fundraising campaigns and organizational matters. Operation Smile involved OAI with the World Journey of Hope campaign and OAI managed their Washington, DC office. United Way International hired Steve to restructure and rebuild its Board of Directors and the US-India Institute for Strategic Policy was managed in its entirety by OAI. And finally, Prince Khaled bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia and the Living Oceans Foundation hired OAI to manage their development issues internationally.

Steve and Carol have three children, one working on Wall Street, another is a recent Harvard graduate and the youngest at Villanova. Steve recently joined the Board of Directors of Leadership Greater Washington. Past positions have included: Chairman of the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) Alumni Association, member of the Board of Trustees at Thunderbird and Co-Chair of the National Cathedral School’s Capital Campaign in Washington, DC.

Currently, Steve is authoring a book titled “Success to Significance,” a chronicle of personal observations and lessons learned over the past 15 years from Wall Street to Main Street. He is an occasional speaker at organizational conferences for George Washington University, Association of Fundraising Professionals, National Volunteer Health Associations, Thunderbird and while on Wall Street, presented at numerous conferences.