Walt has personally negotiated more than two thousand transactions and assisted with several thousand others in all 50 states and 8 countries, and has authored over 100 articles on Hybrid Work and Corporate Workplace Strategy, has been a guest lecturer at both public universities and private companies, is a regular keynote speaker for groups such as the Florida Institute of Chief Financial Officers and SIOR, and has been featured in CFO Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, National Real Estate Investor, and various Business Journals.
He serves as the Chief Financial Officer and a co-founder of Avocat Group. In addition to oversight of financial reporting, he has devoted his career to the study of real estate by corporate and business users. During this time, he has managed an organization providing end-to-end corporate real estate services to business space users across North America and globally, including providing analysis for a myriad of the Fortune 500 as well as public and private firms of all sizes in fixed asset consulting, development, leasehold and fee acquisition, and disposition. Clients include Truist Bank, McKesson, Radio Disney, United Parcel Service, Transamerica, Emerson Electric, Aetna, CoreStates Financial, Sprint, Philips North America, Spalding Sports Worldwide, NYNEX, PSS World Medical, Evenflo, Kforce, Inter-tel, and more.
A graduate of the University of South Florida with a B.S. degree in Business Administration with a major in Finance, Walt has overseen the outsourcing a complete range of real estate and facilities activities for these corporations, including providing facility strategy consulting, leased professionals, and partnering strategies to support and finance entire facilities departments to large publicly traded companies.
Walt’s areas of expertise include financial analysis, site selection, lease evaluation and negotiation, project management, market analysis, financing alternatives, build-to-suits, and fixed asset consulting.
Specialties: Corporate real estate portfolio strategy, Hybrid Workplaces, financial reporting, tenant representation, lease restructuring, optimization of facilities, cost reduction strategies, site selection, real estate market analysis, cost segregation, mergers & acquisitions, benchmarking & metrics, compliance, supply chain.