Walter C. Florence
Managing Partner
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Walter is a Managing Partner. He shares responsibility for management of the firm and focuses on investments in the consumer sector.
Walter is a director of Crofter's Organic, Monterey Bay Herb Co., Schlotterbeck & Foss and Spice Chain Corporation. Walter’s prior investments and directorships include Alfalfa’s, Aspire Media, F+W Media, H-E Parts, Health Valley Foods, Mercer Foods LLC, Salient CRGT, Sigma Corporation, SI International, Wenner Bread Products and Whitebridge Pet Products.
Walter joined Frontenac in 1994 from Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc, where he was an Analyst in the investment banking division.
A Pittsburgh native, Walter graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and received an MBA with distinction from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.