Larry Connor
Quick Facts
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Larry Connor (born in 1950) is an American real estate and technology entrepreneur. Connor is the head of the Connor Group, a real estate investment firm.
Education
Born in 1950 in Albany, New York, Connor graduated summa cum laude in 1972 from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Connor was a member of Who’s Who of College Students and was one of 22 students out of a class of 4,500 undergraduates selected to the Ohio University J Club.
Business career
From 1982 to 1990, Connor owned Orlando Computer Corp. The company had operations in central Florida and Cincinnati, OH, providing hardware and software to businesses.
The Connor Group, a real estate investment firm, was founded as Connor, Murphy & Buhrman in 1992. Connor successfully bought out his partners and established the Connor Group in 2003. Over the next 18 years, the Connor Group grew from $100 million in assets to $3.7 billion.
Connor and the Connor Group have received awards including the 2014 Glassdoor Top 50 Best Places to Work in the US, Small and Medium-Sized Companies, a nomination to the Dayton Magazine 2017 Dayton Business Hall of Fame and multiple Dayton Business Journal Top 100 Businesses in the Region.
On April 23, 2020, Connor donated $1.6 Million as bonuses to his associates.
In 2007, Connor founded the Connor Group Kids & Community Partners. serving disadvantaged youth in communities where the Connor Group operates.
Connor co-founded Heartland Regional Power, a firm provided billing solutions to the multi-family industry, in 2004. First Billing Services, an online payment and bill processing platform also co-founded by Connor, later acquired the firm.
Connor has been a member of the National Council of McLean Hospital since 2008 and works as a strategic partner with the Mayo Clinic.
Personal interests
Connor is a private pilot involved in multiple aerobatic competitions, participates in off-road racing, and circuit racing. He carried out dives in the Mariana Trench in 2021.
On January 26, 2021, it was announced that Larry Connor would be the pilot of the first private crew to visit the International Space Station (ISS) in early 2022, as part of Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1).
