President & Chief Executive Officer
LandingPoint Capital
James F. Orr, III joined the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees in 1995. Mr. Orr began serving as chair of the board in December 2000.
Mr. Orr is President and Chief Executive Officer of LandingPoint Capital in Boston, Massachusetts, a private investment management firm he founded in January 2002. With more than 35 years of experience in the financial-services industry, his career has encompassed insurance, banking, brokerage and investment management.
Previously Mr. Orr was President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston-based United Asset Management Corporation (UAM), one of the largest publicly owned investment management companies in the world. Prior to UAM, Mr. Orr was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UNUM Provident Corporation, a global provider of group disability and other types of insurance. He joined that firm’s predecessor in 1986 as Chief Operating Officer and was elected CEO in 1987. During his tenure, the company grew after-tax profits from $100 million to $400 million, he executed the first conversion of a major mutual insurance company to public ownership, and increased the firm’s value by eight times at its peak. In 1998, he successfully merged UNUM Corporation with Provident Companies. In recognition of his leadership abilities, Mr. Orr was named Insurance CEO of the Year five times by The Wall Street Transcript, and CEO of the Year by the International Insurance Society.
Prior to joining UNUM, Mr. Orr was Executive Vice President and Treasurer of Connecticut Bank & Trust Company in Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked from 1975 to 1986. Previously, he was President of Cardinal Management Company, an investment-management firm in Boston. At the start of his career, Mr. Orr worked at both a New York City brokerage firm and a Boston-based commercial bank.
Mr. Orr is actively involved in a range of industry, community and charitable activities. He is past chairman of the American Council of Life Insurers. He was a regular member of the Conference Board and a director of Nashua Corporation. He is a trustee of Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania; he is a member of the Advisory Council at the Harvard Center for Society and Health; and he serves on the Dean’s Council at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Mr. Orr received his bachelor’s degree in science from Villanova University. He earned his master’s degree in business administration from Boston University in 1970.
