Frank J. Walter III
President and Managing Partner
frankwalter@petruspartners.com

Founding Partner of Petrus Partners, Ltd. and Senior Managing Director of both Crown West Realty, LLC and Crown Columbia Water Resources, LLC, and Chairman of both Coronet Communities and Rathdrum Valley Water Company.

Founding Partner of Petrus Partners, Ltd. in 1992. Present or past director or partner of numerous private companies and real estate partnerships. Over the past 35 years, Mr. Walter has been a principal in or investment banker for over $3 billion of acquisition, financing and sale transactions involving office, industrial, retail, hotel and multifamily properties as well as land investments (commercial, residential and agricultural) throughout the U.S.

Mr. Walter previously worked in the Real Estate Department of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and was a Principal with Centre Partners, the private equity investment partnership of Lazard Frères & Co. Mr. Walter is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and the Harvard Graduate School of Business, where he was a Baker Scholar. He served as a U.S. Navy officer under Admiral Hyman Rickover at the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program Headquarters.

Mr. Walter is Chairman of the Montclair Art Museum and a Trustee of the Heard Museum of American Indian Art.  He serves on the Chancellor’s Circle at Vanderbilt University and as President of the Vanderbilt Navy ROTC Alumni Association.  He is a former director of the Vanderbilt Alumni Association and a member of Business Executives for National Security (BENS).

Christopher F. Bennett
Partner
chrisbennett@petruspartners.com

Mr. Bennett joined Petrus Partners in 2006 and focuses on acquisitions, financings, and dispositions of both commercial properties and land developments. Mr. Bennett oversees residential and commercial development of Petrus’ master-planned communities and industrial parks in Nevada and Arizona. During the past two decades Mr. Bennett has orchestrated the purchase and development of 15,000 residential lots and 1,000 acres of industrial land.

Prior to Petrus, he worked at Nomura Securities International where he originated and underwrote commercial mortgage loans and in Merrill Lynch & Co.’s Private Wealth Management Division. Mr. Bennett graduated from Duke University and the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.