Travis spent 15 years serving as Corporate Counsel for independent oil and gas companies with operations in Kentucky, Illinois, Texas and Louisiana. As a corporate attorney he has wide-ranging experience in securities, corporate governance, contract negotiations, real estate matters and litigation including representing licensed, registered brokers and broker-dealers in the FINRA Arbitration Forum. When offered the opportunity to return to his home state of Arkansas, Travis took the position of Senior Corporate Counsel with startup AcreTrader, LLC in October of 2022. He joined NativState, LLC as General Counsel in March 2024.
Travis was born and raised in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and completed his undergraduate degree in Political Science at Westminster College in Fulton, MO. He returned to Little Rock, AR to earn his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arkansas Bowen School of Law. Travis and his wife Lisa have two children and live in Fayetteville, Arkansas.