Steve Bisciotti Stephen J . Bisciotti ( born April 10 , 1960 in Philadelphia ) is the current majority owner of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League . He founded a family of technical staffing companies known as Allegis Group , which owns AeroTek and TekSystems . Background . Steve Bisciotti came from a working - class family in a Baltimore suburb . His parents , Bernard and Patricia Bisciotti , moved to Severna Park , Maryland , in March 1961 . His father died of leukemia when Steve was eight . Growing up , Bisciotti loved sports . His father took the children to Baltimore Orioles and Colts games . In his senior year at Severna Park High School , he played on the football team , though he has said he " wasn ' t much of a high school athlete . " In 1982 , Bisciotti graduated from Salisbury State University in Maryland with a degree in liberal arts . A year later , at 23 , he and his cousin Jim Davis started Aerotek , a staffing company in the aerospace and technology sectors . Running the company out of a basement office with secondhand equipment , Bisciotti and Davis produced $ 1 . 5 million in sales in the first year . Aerotek grew into the Allegis Group , which is now the largest privately held staffing firm in the United States and 6th in the world . Bisciotti ' s involvement in the sports business has brought more attention to his once low profile company . Sports ownership . On March 27 , 2000 , NFL owners approved the sale of 49 % of the Ravens to Bisciotti . In the deal , Bisciotti had an option to purchase the remaining 51 % for $ 325 million in 2004 from Art Modell . On April 9 , 2004 the NFL approved Steve Bisciotti ' s purchase of the majority stake in the club . One of the first projects Bisciotti directed as owner of the Ravens was to build the team ' s state - of - the - art training and practice facility , dubbed " The Castle , " which opened in October 2004 . His stewardship of the Ravens has been calm and professional , often serving as a sharp counterpoint ( if not a deliberate one ) to the chaos involving the Washington Redskins under the ownership of Daniel Snyder , and trusting in the universally respected management of GM Ozzie Newsome . However , Bisciotti showed he was willing to take strong actions when he fired Brian Billick after the 2007 season , although Billick ' s eight years as the Ravens ' head coach included the team ' s win in Super Bowl XXXV . He then surprised many observers by selecting John Harbaugh as his new coach , despite Harbaugh ' s peak of previous experience being a single year as a defensive backs coach after several successful years as the lauded special teams coach for the Philadelphia Eagles ; with a 100 % success rate of four playoff appearances in four seasons , Bisciotti and Newsome are often mentioned as one of the NFL ' s best owner - top executive combinations . In 2005 Bisciotti ranked 378 among the Forbes 400 , a list of the richest Americans . Bisciotti is currently the second youngest owner in the NFL , after 46 - year - old Daniel Snyder . Personal life . Bisciotti is a board member for both Associated Catholic Charities and Mother Seton Academy . He and his wife Renée ( Foote ) have two sons , Jason and Jack . The family lives on the Severn River in Maryland .