Steven Kelly


Steven Kelly is a businessman and Olympian best known for having competed three times in the Olympic Games. He represented the Bahamas as an Olympic sailor in the Summer Olympics of 1984, 1988 and 1992. He is currently the CEO of Odyssey Aviation, an international flight handling business which offers private aviation services.

Personal life

He was born in the Bahamas in 1955, the son of Basil T Kelly CBE and Paula Kelly. He attended McDonogh School, in Baltimore and Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. He went on to attend the University of Miami. He is also the owner of the Bahamas Iron & Steel Company Limited. A general construction company he bought in 1981 and ran until 1996, when he went into the aviation industry and founded Odyssey Aviation where he currently works. In 2010, Steven was awarded the Paul Harris Fellow award by the Rotary Club of Nassau in recognition of his longtime commitment to both the Rotary Club and the Bahamian community.

Olympics

Steven has competed at three Olympic games, in the Mixed two person keelboat event. In the Summer Olympics of 1984, he was the skipper of the Bahamas Olympic sailing team, ranking tenth in the results table. In 1988 he competed again, under skipper Durward Knowles, they were placed 19th in the results table. He was skipper again in 1992 placed 17th. He has not won any Olympic medals.

Sailing history