Karen Wikstrom
President

Education: BA Economics, Smith College; MS Finance, University of Utah

Expertise: Economic & Fiscal Impacts, Public Planning,
Environmental Analysis, Real Estate Development & Finance

Professional Affiliations:
American Planning Association
American Institute of Certified Planners Institute

Karen Wikstrom’s nearly thirty years of economic-analysis experience and specialization in a wide array of real estate, finance and planning services, has made Wikstrom a flourishing business. Her expertise includes economic and fiscal impacts analysis, public planning and real estate development. Karen entered the workforce in the early 1980s just in time to gain her initial training in the workouts of problem real estate and financial institutions of the S&L crisis. She develops recapitalization plans, prepares bid packages, conducts due diligence on behalf of potential bidders, conducts asset swaps, prepares lending policies and procedures, evaluates pools of assets, manages assets in receiverships and conservatorships and assists in the takeover of financial institutions. Karen is actively involved in the community, has been adjunct instructor in financial analysis for the University of Utah and serves on the advisory board of the University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning.