Ben Walters
Commercial Wood Products | Sales & Business Development
- Role
- Vice President, Business Development at Bourne Industries Inc
- Location
- Detroit, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ben Walters
Accomplished professional with nearly 20 years of experience in commercial real estate investment, asset management, and finance at hands-on institutional firms.• Seasoned market analysis expert with extensive experience sourcing, structuring, and negotiating capital transactions such as acquisitions, dispositions, loans, leases, asset repositioning projects, and ground-up developments.• Strategic thinker and creative problem solver with effective communication, leadership, quantitative, and organizational skills who takes initiative and thrives in a team setting.• Highly proficient on Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Argus Enterprise software.• Trained to operate under pressure and manage competing priorities while staying focused on meeting deadlines and delivering top-quality work product.• Designated as an emerging leader while at GE Capital and nominated to attend courses at the John F. Welch Leadership Development Center in Crotonville, NY.Professional Specialties: • Acquisitions• Dispositions• Underwriting • Negotiations• Due Diligence• Financial Analysis • Financial Modeling• Structured Finance• Capital Markets • Risk Management• Asset Management• Portfolio Management• Business Development
Experience
Vice President, Business Development
Jun 2025 — Present · MI, US
Education
Greenhills School
Diploma
Beijing Normal University
Certificate, Mandarin Chinese
Peking University
Certificate, International Political Economy
UC Santa Barbara
BA, Business Economics, Global & International Studies, Chinese
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance and Strategy
2018 — 2020
Skills
- Due Diligence
- Financial Risk
- Asset Management
- Microsoft Excel
- Disposition
- Underwriting
- Asset Dispositions
- Leadership
- Acquisitions
- Real Estate
- Negotiation
- Microsoft Office
- Sales
- Foreign Affairs
- Commercial Real Estate
- Lease Negotiations
- Dyna
- Investments
- Alternative Investments
- Private Equity
- Strategy
- Business Development
- Financial Analysis
- Location Intelligence
- Commercial Real Estate Analysis
- Real Estate Finance
- Capital Markets
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Real Estate Economics
- Real Estate Development
- Finance
- Corporate Finance
- Chinese
- Political Economy
- Management
- Real Estate Investment
- Commercial Real Estate Acquisition
- Financial Modeling
- Economics
- Mergers & Acquisitions
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