Chris has been with Chavez-Grieves since 1993 and has served in his current role as President/CEO and Managing Partner since 2002. Chris brings over 30 years of experience in the design and construction industry to the position.

While spending most of his time directing the day-to-day operations of the firm, Chris also travels across the U.S. marketing the firm’s services, building client relationships and with providing project oversight. He takes specific pride in focusing on building long-lasting relationships with clients and focusing on whatever it takes to make our clients’ projects successful.

Chris’ project experience includes project management and structural engineering on various types of design projects for commercial, institutional, education, medical, industrial, and government facilities. He has been involved in projects with a wide variety of building types to include resorts, casinos, hotels, hospitals, aquariums, amphitheaters, office buildings, parking structures, laboratories, central plants, schools and auditoriums.

Chris also provides consultative services to a select group of professional service firm clients throughout the southwest. Drawing on over two decades of experience as managing partner of Chavez-Grieves, Chris works with other professional service firms, consulting them on ownership and leadership transition planning, business valuation, funding of internal ownership transition plans, and financial and organizational management. Chris also assists firms with designing and establishing employee benefits and wellness programs.

Chris firmly believes ownership and leadership transition should be an essential element of every professional service firm’s strategic planning and that it is absolutely vital to firm’s seeking to maximize their long-term success. Chris assists firms with designing and implementing ownership and leadership transition strategies that help them ensure their future continuity, from generation to generation, while also assisting in their retention of key staff members, fostering their thriving cultures, and creating opportunities for their current and future leaders, and all while addressing the liquidity and return on equity needs of the majority owners, the financial constraints of future and minority owners, and the short and long-term cashflow and working capital needs of the firm.

Chris also firmly believes that without exception, a professional service firms’ greatest and most valuable resource is its people, and a firm’s highest purpose should be to foster a thriving culture where all its people are able to achieve personal well-being and reach their absolute greatest potential. Using a proven, time-tested foundational model that he has developed for optimizing personal health and well-being, Chris assists firms with designing and implementing employee benefit plans and employee wellness programs that support each of these initiatives.

A native of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, Chris received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from New Mexico State University. He started his education at the University of Maryland, European Division, while he was serving in the United States Army. During his time in the military, Chris served in the 1st Infantry Division, completing tours of duty in Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Northern Africa.