As President and CEO, Chris provides firm-wide leadership, strategic vision, and project direction across all SCB practice areas. He has helped expand the firm’s national presence by supporting growth into new markets while strengthening SCB’s core sectors, with a particular focus on adaptive reuse, workplace, residential, hospitality, aviation, and mixed-use urban development.

Chris brings a collaborative, technically rigorous approach to every project, emphasizing multidisciplinary teamwork and innovation to deliver high-performing, beautifully crafted design solutions. He has been instrumental in advancing adaptive reuse as a key pillar of SCB’s practice, recognizing its importance in extending the life of existing buildings while creating meaningful value for clients and communities.

As founding principal of SCB’s San Francisco office, Chris oversaw the delivery of projects recognized for design excellence, including Anaha, Park Lane Ala Moana, and 100 Van Ness, a highly successful conversion of an office tower in San Francisco’s Civic Center to residential use. His adaptive reuse portfolio also includes the transformation of Tribune Tower from office to luxury residential, along with active repositioning efforts at 135 South LaSalle and 30 North LaSalle, projects that reflect SCB’s commitment to reinvestment, preservation, and urban revitalization.

A graduate of Carleton University, Chris is a member of Lambda Alpha International, the American Institute of Architects, Urban Land Institute, the Arts Club of Chicago, and the Economic Club of Chicago. Chris sits on the IIT College of Architecture Advisory Board and the Buildings and Grounds Committee at Saint Ignatius College Prep in Chicago.