Chris Staples, Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer
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Chris is the Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Baird Trust. He has 25 years of experience in trust and estate planning. Chris is a member of the Trust Company’s Leadership Team.
Chris spent seven years with PNC as a Senior Wealth Planner in Louisville. Before that, he worked for Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio for 5 years in a variety of roles including as Associate Counsel to the Private Client Group. Before that he spent four years as a Law Clerk and Associate for Dodd & Dodd, a Louisville law firm. Chris received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northern Kentucky University and a J.D. from the University of Louisville. He has served in the U.S. Navy and the Naval Reserves. Chris is a board member for Home of the Innocents and the Louisville Nature Center. Chris joined our firm in 2014.