Franz Ross joined CES in December of 2018. As Chief Appraiser of Business Valuations, he strengthens the platform that we currently offer financial institutions.

Franz spent twenty years as a commercial banker, working as a credit analyst, relationship manager and underwriter. He was involved in a wide range of transactions from small business loans to structuring credit for public companies.

As an appraisal professional, Franz has earned two designations in business valuation and has become a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in the State of New York. He specializes in the appraisal of property types involving significant non-real estate components such as “Going Concerns.”

Franz has published numberous articles involving real estate appraisal and business valuation. He and co-author Adam Alessi are referenced in the renowned text “Valuing a Business,” by Shannon Pratt.  Franz and Adam Alessi won the 2011 Armstrong/Kahn Award for The Appraisal Journal’s “Using TEEM‐Work to Extend Your Reach on the Real Estate / Business Value Continuum.”

Franz graduated from Buffalo State College in Buffalo, NY in 1978 with a BA in Economics and he obtained his MBA in 1984 from Canisius College, also in Buffalo, NY.

To contact Franz, call 678-580-6230, or email him at fross@cesvaluations.com