Steven Higdon

About Steven Higdon

Accomplished, energetic, entrepreneurial oriented and goal-driven Financial, Investment and Operational Executive with 35 years of hands-on experience in Real Estate/Construction/Development with 21 of those years in a CFO capacity. Experienced in public accounting, private industry, and Family Office environments. Proficient in executing complex responsibilities with an exceptional history of crafting ideas and strategies, exhibiting lucid wisdom of direction, establishing a sense of teamwork, principle and group identity while achieving maximum asset and profit growth/value, operational and corporate cost efficiencies and tax deferment strategies to deliver end-to-end financial life cycle view of the Real Estate Asset and Company.CORE COMPETENCIESBusiness Strategy Formation Strategy Implementation Business Transformation Asset Ownership Structure Asset Type Diversification Due DiligenceFinancial Modeling/BenchmarkingInvestment Stabilization Investment/Asset/Property ManagementRisk/Return Tolerance AnalysisBest PracticesFinancial/Treasury Internal ControlsFinancial Reporting/AccountingCash Flow ManagementRisk/Insurance ManagementConstruction/Job Costing/% of CompletionProperty Tax Appeal Process

Experience

1. Chief Financial Officer

   Gk Real Estate

   Nov 2020 — Present · Barrington, IL, US

   Primarily responsible for managing the company\'s finances, including; financial and tax planning, treasury management and investing, internal financial controls, risk management, and financial reporting. Supervises the accounting, finance and treasury departments. He is the financial spokesperson for the company while being fully integrated on the real estate development, property and leasing operations, acquisitions/dispositions teams. Lead member in fund/bond administration for all Reg A and Reg D Offerings. Leads internal audit as well as the external SEC driven audit & legal teams.

Education

• Illinois State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Accounting, Finance concentration

  1983 — 1988

Skills

• Cash Flow Management
• Financial Reporting
• Strategy Implementation
• Commercial Real Estate
• Legal Contracts
• Asset Type Diversification
• Construction/Jobcosting
• Property Management
• Due Diligence
• Disposition
• Dispositions
• Underwriting
• Loan Servicing
• Leasing/Brokerage
• Gaap
• Management
• Class L Ret Relief
• Risk/Insurance Management
• Business Strategy Formation
• Budgets
• Portfolio Management
• Strategic Planning
• Debt & Equity Origination
• Financial Modeling
• Cost Segregation Tax Strategy
• Office Condominium Structure
• Negotiation
• Leases
• Cash Flow
• Investments
• Return/Risk Tolerance Analysis
• Forecasting
• Operations Management
• Asset Ownership Structure
• Reciprocal Easement Agreements
• Mixed-Use Facility Management
• Sarbanes-Oxley
• Lease Administration/Audit
• Investment Stabilization
• Accounting