Steve Baird is the president and chief executive officer of Baird & Warner and the firm’s fifth-generation owner. Established in 1855, Baird & Warner is the oldest independent family-owned real estate services company in the United States. It operates residential brokerage, mortgage, title and insurance companies with combined sales volume of over $10 billion in 2025.

Baird has long worked for the preservation of open space as past-president of both CorLands and the Openlands Project, and as a National and Chicago Board Member for The Trust for Public Land. He holds memberships in the YPO Gold Organization, the Chief Executives Organization, and the Commercial Club of Chicago. Baird is a Life Trustee of the Morton Arboretum and serves on the Foundation Board of Lurie Children's Hospital.

Baird is actively involved with public radio serving on the board of WBEZ in Chicago for over 15 years. He has held several roles at WBEZ including Chariman of the Board and Chairman of the recent Capital Campaign. He has also recently joined the Board of Aspen Public Radio.

A 1974 cum laude graduate of Harvard University, Baird remains active in the Harvard Community through the HAA Schools and Scholarship Committee and is the Co-Chair of the Harvard Schools Committee in