Lawrence Charles Walzel

Chuck Walzel serves as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for El Centro del Barrio d/b/a CentroMed. In this capacity, he manages the financial strategy and accounting operations of a company with assets in excess of $61 million and an operating budget of more than $54 million which provides services to over 75,000 patients per year. Walzel is committed to maximizing profitability, productivity and efficiency, securing assets, assuring regulatory and GAAP compliance and developing strategies which support growth, liquidity, contingency reserves and conservative fiscal practices.

Walzel joined CentroMed in 1998 from The Center for Health Care Services where he served as the Chief Financial Officer. He joined the Center for Health Care Services in 1994 as Budget Manager and was promoted to Chief Financial Officer in 1996. Previously he spent 7 years at BancPlus Mortgage Corporation as a Senior Financial Analyst specializing in long range forecasting and portfolio acquisition modeling. Prior to that, he spent 3 years at Commerce Savings Association as an Accountant II in the Real Estate Owned / Commercial Foreclosure division and 2 years at American Mayflower Moving and Storage as a Staff Accountant.

In addition, Walzel has worked part-time evenings as an Adjunct Professor at San Antonio College from 1991-1994 in the Computer Information Systems school teaching spreadsheet design. He also worked as Adjunct Professor for the University of the Incarnate Word at the HEB School of Business from 2004-2007 teaching advanced corporate finance and governmental accounting.

Walzel holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Stephen F. Austin State University and a master of business administration degree from Webster University. He is also licensed as a Certificated Public Accountant with the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy.