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.