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.

Over the past 30 years, Mr. Walter has been a principal in or investment banker for over $2 billion of acquisition, financing and sale transactions involving office, industrial, retail, hotel, multifamily, and agricultural properties and land development projects throughout the U.S. as well as a director or partner of numerous private companies and real estate partnerships. 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 Fréres & Co.

Mr. Walter is the President and a Trustee of the Montclair Art Museum, President of the Vanderbilt Navy ROTC Alumni Association, and a Director of Trolex Corporation. He is a former Director of the Vanderbilt Alumni Association.

Mr. Walter is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 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 in Washington, D.C.