Robert Orr

President, T.T.I. Consulting

Robert’s diverse executive leadership career spans + 40 years and includes experience in the private equity, ocean technology, marine biotechnology, nutritional ingredient, and food retailing industries. Robert operates a consulting company focused on Leadership Development, Building High Performance Teams, and Executive Coaching. Previously (2012 – 2025) Robert served as the Managing Director of Cuna del Mar LP; a USA based impact investment fund that is concerned with global food security, healthy oceans and investing in transformational technologies related to sustainable aquaculture.

Robert has extensive experience in the creation and management of fast-growing companies. That experience includes co-founding Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd., which grew from an idea to a +500-person company with customers in over 30 countries, before being sold to Royal Dutch DSM in 2012. His early business experience was in the food retailing industry where he ran large supermarket divisions and was also the founder/CEO of a unique specialty food retailing business. In addition, Robert chairs the boards of several early stage companies and mentors their management teams.

Robert is an active volunteer to various organizations, including: Founding Chair of Natural Products Canada Centre of Excellence; Past-Chair and Board member of the Community Foundation of Nova Scotia; past and founding member of Board, Canadian Ocean Technology Supercluster; Fellow at Creative Destruction Lab, Ocean Stream; Chair of DeNova Inc.; and serves on the Advisory Board of the Dalhousie University School of Management