Patrick Walsh CEO Biography with Work Experience
Founder, CEO & Managing Partner at PW Partners, LLC. FL, USA be.net/patrickwalshceo
Biography of Patrick Walsh
Patrick Walsh CEO is a highly regarded entrepreneur, company founder, investment specialist, and CEO from Palm Beach County, Florida. Walsh established the value-oriented investment firm PW Partners in 2012, focused on maximizing the potential of small and mid-cap companies
The PW Partners founder and CEO boasts a demonstrated history of success within investment management, maintaining a particular focus on the restaurant industry. His work has featured extensively in several high-profile publications, including Barron's, Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal
His past clients and other affiliations range from the luxury gym and health club brands TMPL and Palm Beach Sports Club to Town Sports International and the Midwestern barbecue restaurant chain Famous Dave's of America. Away from his work, Sunshine State-based Patrick is passionate about cooking, fitness, literature, and travel
Current Roles & Duties
PW Partners
Patrick Walsh, a CEO, heads up operations at PW Partners in Jupiter, Florida. PW Partners focuses on creating long-term value for small and mid-cap companies. The organization, founded by investment specialist Walsh in 2012, maximizes its portfolio companies' values through careful operational strategy implementation and meaningful capital allocation measures.
PW Partners maintains a solid reputation for its enhanced strategic decision-making and deep sector expertise. Founder and CEO Walsh oversees the firm's capital allocation, enterprise finance, and corporate strategy efforts. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, hedge funds, investment banking, and equities.
Ernst & Young named Patrick Walsh PW Partners founder and CEO their Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2018
PW Partners CEO Patrick Walsh further oversees business at Florida-based Empire Holdings and Investments. Empire is a diversified holding company headquartered in Palm Beach County. The firm has subsidiaries in various markets and other investment opportunities across Florida and nationwide.
Patrick Walsh, Empire Holdings and Investments CEO, joined the diversified holding company in 2020. As the firm's CEO, he manages all facets of its corporate structure. This structure focuses on flexible investing to create long-term value in myriad industries.
Between PW Partners and Empire Holdings and Investments, Walsh's past and present clients include the likes of TMPL, Palm Beach Sports Club, and LIV.
Career History
Walsh's career began in 1998 as an investment analyst at Prudential Capital Group and Prudential Securities. At Prudential, he specialized in commercial property and publicly traded real estate investment trusts
Six years later, the investment specialist turned company founder and CEO joined Deutsche Bank. There, he spent several years as the German multinational bank and financial services company's vice president of investment banking
From Deutsche Bank, Walsh headed to Illinois to become a part of a well-known hedge fund where he specialized in long-short equity before subsequently joining PWK Partners in Chicago as a managing partner. He remained in the Windy City until 2012, then relocated to Florida to establish Jupiter-headquartered PW Partners
Today,andfromhisbaseintheSunshineState,theaward-winningbusinessleadercontinuestoserveclientsnationwide,including the likes of New York luxury health club staple TMPL
Academic Background
Wesleyan University
Patrick Walsh attended Wesleyan University in Middlesex County, Connecticut. Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts university founded in 1831 under the Methodist Episcopal Church. At the institution in Middletown, Walsh studied economics and was a celebrated two-sport athlete competing in baseball and football.
Boston College
Following a sports career-ending back injury, Walsh transferred from Wesleyan University to Boston College. Boston College in Massachusetts, where his parents raised him, is a private Jesuit research university founded in 1863. He graduated from the college's Chestnut Hill campus, six miles west of downtown Boston, with honors and a degree in accountancy
Columbia University
Walsh went on to earn a Chartered Financial Analyst designation and completed further investment education studies at Columbia University. That included undertaking the New York City-based Ivy League research university's Graduate School of Business's Executive Value Investing Program under the esteemed economist and professor Bruce Greenwald.
Associations & Memberships
Entrepreneur Patrick Walsh, founder of PW Partners and former CEO of Empire Holdings, has held numerous board positions during his decades-long career. That includessitting onthe board of directors of BJ's Restaurants, Inc. and serving as the chairman of the board of Town Sports International
The seasoned executive and investment specialist has also held board, chair, and committee positions within numerous wellknown companies, including Del Taco Restaurants, Inc. and Famous Dave's of America.
Nation's Restaurant News, which delivers finance, marketing, and operational analytics and data to food service sector leaders, named Walsh in its 2015 Power List. Restaurant News's annual Power List showcases the 50 most influential people in the restaurant industry that year.
The Columbia University graduate maintains a Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute. The CFA Institute's charter designates professionals who have completed the three-part CFA Program and a subsequent exam. This exam qualifies individuals on the fundamentals of investment tools, portfolio management, valuing assets, and wealth planning
Personal Life & Interests
Patrick Walsh was born in San Diego, California, and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother and father, New England natives, were a school teacher and a naval officer, respectively. He now happily lives and works in Jupiter in Palm Beach County, Florida. Jupiter is renowned for its beautiful beaches and charming Old Florida vibe
Away from his work, the PW Partners founder and CEO enjoys numerous hobbies and interests. Among these hobbies and interests are fitness, cooking, and travel. He is also an avid and life-long reader and a lover of literature
PW Partners, LLC
Founder, CEO & Managing Partner
PW Partners, LLC is an investment management firm focused on long-term value creation for small and mid-cap companies. PW Partners objective is to maximize the potential value of its portfolio companies by positively influencing corporate policies through operations, strategy and capital allocation. PW Partners has a strong history of creating value through enhanced strategic decision making, operational excellence, capital allocation, board involvement and deep sector expertise.
PW Partners accolades have been recognized and written about in Forbes Magazine, Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Deal and Nation’s Restaurant News. In addition, Mr. Walsh was named one of the 50 most powerful people in the food service industry by Nation’s Restaurant News in 2015. In 2018 Mr. Walsh was named Entrepreneur Of The Year by Ernst & Young. August 2012 - Present Jupiter, Florida, United States
Empire Holdings And Investments, LLC
Chief Executive Officer
Empire Holdings and Investments, LLC is a diversified holding company with subsidiaries engaged in a number of businesses and investment activities. Empire’s corporate structure provides flexibility to make investments across a broad spectrum of industries in order to create long-term value.
December 2020 - Present Jupiter, Florida, United States
BJ's Restaurants, Inc.
Member of the Board of Directors
June 2014 - February 2022 Huntington Beach, California, United States
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Del Taco Restaurants Inc.
Board Member & Lead Director
Private Equity/Equity Research
Real Estate, REITs & Lodging
1998 - 2004 Florida, United States
EDUCATION
Columbia Business School
Executive Program, Value Investing Program Studied under the esteemed Bruce Greenwald. BS, Accounting
1995 -
1998 United States
Economics
Activities and societies: Football �� and Baseball ⚾
1994 - 1995 United States