Chris graduated from Western Washington University with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration; majoring in Finance.

Chris became a partner at Woodford in January of 2009. Prior to this Chris was practicing Real estate in SW Washington for 3 years and Bank Management for 2 years prior to entering into the real estate field.

Chris enjoys being active in his local community including Kelso Rotary, Chamber of Commerce Ambassador, Lower Columbia Professionals, Kelso Eagles, and LeTip of Longview.

Chris regularly attends meetings in Portland attending CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member), and also belonged to MART (Meaningful Arrangement of Real Estate Transactions) for many years in which Chris has won Transaction of the Year 3 times. Chris has the designation from Co-Star (a leading commercial website) as a power broker for our local area.

Chris has broad experience in all fields of Real Estate, including Multi-Family (both large and small), Commercial Investments, Leasing, Sales, Creative Transactions, Alternate Financing Methods, and really enjoys number crunching.

Chris has owned most every type of property out there and has hands on knowledge of what it takes to make projects successful.