PROFILE
Left to Right: Bobby Montagne, Founder and CEO; Michele Hsu, VP of Marketing; Katia Potapov, VP of Operations; Byron Clarke, VP of Finance
BOBBY MONTAGNE WALNUT STREET FINANCE
borrowers to achieve success with every project. This Virginia-based company has a unique advantage—for 20 years it was a builder, not a funder. Bobby admits he is more comfortable in blue jeans and boots because he was the one on job sites overseeing residential and commercial property
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private lending firm that mentors its
development. Walnut Street Finance
f you ever attend networking
understand property development
events in the private money
the way he does—he literally lives
lending space, then you may
and breathes real estate. Bobby
have met Bobby Montagne, founder
has a storied career that originated
and CEO of Walnut Street Finance
with a real estate investment trust
boots, they approach each loan as a
(WSF)
player
company and is now in its prime with
partnership. They not only want their
in the industry. Very few lenders
Walnut Street Finance, a hard money
borrowers to prosper, they have a
and
a
prominent
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has a ground-up understanding of construction,
land,
entitlement,
processing,
architecture,
and
building. Having dirtied their own
