Christopher T. Bayley

Seattle, WA
Chris Bayley is the co-founder of Stewardship Partners and Chairman of Dylan Bay Consulting. He has been active in the Seattle community for 45 years. He began his law career in 1966 as an associate attorney with Lane, Powell, Moss & Miller, then worked under Attorney General Slade Gorton as the Deputy Attorney General and Chief of the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division. In 1970, Christopher was elected King County Prosecuting Attorney and served until 1979. He then became Partner in Charge of Public Finance at the Perkins Coie law firm.

In 1982, Chris began a ten year corporate career, first as Senior Vice President, Law and Corporate Affairs at Burlington Northern Inc. and beginning in 1985 as President and CEO of Glacier Park Company, its real estate subsidiary. When the Burlington companies departed Seattle in 1992, he joined New Pacific Partners as Chairman. After an unsuccessful bid for United States Senate in 1998, Chris and a campaign associate formed Stewardship Partners and he began his consulting practice.

Chris has served as a trustee of the University of Puget Sound, The Bush School, The Seattle Foundation, Corporate Council for the Arts (now ArtsFund), The Nature Conservancy (state and national boards), the E.B. Dunn Historic Garden Trust, and as a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College. He currently is on the board of directors at Discovery Institute and Sabre Foundation. He is a director of The Commerce Bank of Washington.

Chris holds a BA in history from Harvard College and a JD from Harvard Law School.