CHRIS CORR

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, RAYONIER; PRESIDENT, RAYDIENT, WILDLIGHT

Rayonier has about 400 employees, and Corr joined the senior leadership team in 2013. He has been a state legislator, member of the Constitutional Revision Commission, gubernatorial transition team leader, University of Florida trustee and chair of the Florida Council of 100. A timberland real estate investment trust, Rayonier either owns, leases or manages about 2.5 million acres in the South, Pacific Northwest and New Zealand. In 2017, the company relocated its headquarters to Wildlight, a 24,000-acre master-planned community north of Jacksonville being developed by Raydient, a Rayonier subsidiary that’s developing communities in Florida, Georgia and Washington.

EDUCATION: University of Florida (BA)

FIRST JOB: As a teenager, I was a laborer working for a water and sewer utility company.

SOMETHING SURPRISING: I have sort of taught myself to paint working together with my granddaughters. It’s very basic, and I wouldn’t show it to anyone, but we are very prolific!

HOBBY: See above, and also taking care of a little hobby farm outside of Gainesville.

DREAM ALTERNATE CAREER
“Some combination of pastor, writer, philosopher, politician and farmer.”