Born February 16, 1971 in Orange County, California, is a keyboardist and pianist, currently collaborating with the band Korn and Jonathan's Davis solo-project. He is also noted for using the Moog synthesizer as well as the Ondes Martenot.

His first project was the band Billy Goat which he joined in 1990 and was a member for six years. Over the years he either founded or was involved in numerous other projects and bands, including Whitey / Cottonmouth Texas / Decadent Dub Team / HairyApesBMX / Maimou. Baird has collaborated with artists from many various music genres, including Edie Brickell, Everlast, Evanescence (provided programming for their debut album Fallen), Colin Hay, Daniel Powter, Mike Dillon, Stone Gossard and many more.