Walter C. Florence

Managing Partner

Walter is a Managing Partner. He shares responsibility for management of the firm and focuses on investments in the consumer sector.

He is a director of Crofter's Organic, Monterey Bay, Salient CRGT, Schlotterbeck & Foss, Spice Chain Corporation, and Whitebridge Pet Products. Walter’s prior investments and directorships include Alfalfa’s, Aspire Media, F+W Media, H-E Parts, Health Valley Foods, Mercer Foods LLC, Sigma Corporation, SI International, and Wenner Bread 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.