Before coming to Goff & Howard, Chris served two terms (1993-1997) as state chairman of the Republican Party of Minnesota, transforming its fundraising, communications, technology, and grassroots organizing operations - resulting in immediate successes in the 1994 elections and providing a foundation for significant party victories in the 1998 and 2002 elections. At the time, he was the youngest state chairman of either major party in the country.

As party chairman, he worked to repair deep, intra-party divisions to ensure the re-election of Governor Arne Carlson in 1994. In 1998 he managed then-Saint Paul Mayor (later U.S. Senator) Norm Coleman's unsuccessful gubernatorial race, finishing second in an unusual three-way race. In 2002, Chris was campaign chairman for Tim Pawlenty's first election as governor, directing the strategy to defeat a strong rival for the GOP nomination and win the general election. Chris then served as chairman of Governor Pawlenty's transition team and his kitchen cabinet for the next two years.

Chris Georgacas's experience with state government includes service as a top aide in the Minnesota House of Representatives; a researcher in the Minnesota Senate; an administrator in a state agency (where he was in charge of terminating a state grant program); board member of the Minnesota State Board of Education; and vice-chair and committee chairman of the Metropolitan Council.

In 1997, he founded Center of the American Experiment's free-market policy prescription project for Minnesota state government, published the next year as the Minnesota Policy Blueprint. With legendary Democratic former Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe, Chris co-chaired a bipartisan task force which produced the critically acclaimed 2006 report, "Devoted to Some Useful Purpose:" Reforming Minnesota's Legislature for the 21st Century. In 2000, he led the bipartisan committee working in successful opposition to then-Governor Ventura's proposal for a unicameral legislature.

Chris also served on the staffs of two of the state's United States senators in the 1980s; worked for former U.S Representative Vin Weber; managed the unexpected party endorsement of former U.S. Representative Jim Ramstad in 1990; and today is kitchen cabinet chair for U.S. Representative Erik Paulsen. He is a past member of the Republican National Committee and a delegate to three Republican National Conventions, once as Minnesota Delegation Chairman, and twice as a member of the Platform Committee.

In addition, Chris has been involved in a number of community organizations, including service as a church volunteer, library trustee, and American Heart Association volunteer. He presently serves as chair of the Saint Paul Police Foundation board, and has been a board member of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts since 2005.

Chris is a native of Grand Forks, North Dakota. He studied classical languages at the University of Minnesota. Chris and his wife have been married 24 years and have two children. He enjoys skiing, cycling, listening to the blues and classical music, reading economic and political history, and avidly follows Formula 1 racing.