Willy Walker is chairman and chief executive officer of Walker & Dunlop. Under Mr. Walker’s leadership, Walker & Dunlop has grown from a small, family-owned business to become one of the largest commercial real estate finance and advisory service firms in the United States and internationally. Walker & Dunlop is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and in its first ten years as a public company saw its shares appreciate over 800%. The firm was #17 on Fortune’s 2017 list of “Fastest Growing Public Companies” and has been named a Best Workplace for eight of the last eleven years by the Great Place to Work® Institute.

Mr. Walker received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2011 and was named “Financier of the Year” in 2017 and 2020 by Commercial Property Executive, and was selected as a Most Admired CEO by the Denver Business Journal in 2024. He is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and holds an MBA from Harvard.

Mr. Walker created and hosts the Walker Webcast, that has over 16M views and 200 episodes. The Walker Webcast brings brilliant minds from broad and varied backgrounds to share “Insights for Life.”

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