Kari Wong

CPA, Controller

Career Summary

Kari has spent her accounting career in the real estate industry in the DFW area. She has 20 years of experience and joined the NetCo Investments’ team in January 2016. Mrs. Wong is a CPA and currently works as a controller for NetCo Investments, Inc. handling all financial matters for each property and the company.

 

Experience

Mrs. Wong’s career started as an auditor for KPMG primarily focused on real estate clients and from there worked as an assistant controller for Phoenix Property Company. At Phoenix Property Company, where she spent over 9 years of her career, she worked on many acquisitions and dispositions and primarily was involved in the accounting of the operations of multi-family and mixed-use projects. Notably one of the more renowned projects she worked on was West Village in the Dallas Uptown area. During her time at Phoenix Property, she had the opportunity to work with and learn from many prominent real estate moguls in the DFW area. This opportunity enabled her to build on those relationships and find new opportunities as she began working on a contract basis in 2010 after her third son was born. In 2010 she began working at Henry S. Miller Interests, Inc. and continued with them for the next 6 years. She was a controller for the family’s business and as her time with them continued assisted with not only accounting functions but also property management and office management functions as well as she helped the family wind down this company. As she was winding down Henry S. Miller Interests, Inc., Mrs. Wong engaged in new opportunities and began working as a controller for Lakeside DFW on a 155-acre mixed-use development in Flower Mound, TX developed by Peter Stewart and family and Realty Capital Management. During this time is also when she joined the NetCo team.

 

Education and Organizations

Kari graduated from the University of New Mexico, Anderson School of Business with her BBA with a concentration in accounting in 1997. She is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in New Mexico. She relocated to the Dallas Ft. Worth area from Albuquerque, NM in December of 1997 after she graduated from UNM and has spent her entire career in the Dallas Fort Worth area.

 

Kari lives in Frisco, TX, has been married since 2002 and has three sons. In her spare time, she enjoys watching her sons in their many different sporting activities, spending time with friends and family, enjoying new restaurants and traveling.