Karen Hickey

Karen Hickey provides senior operations management, leasing and asset management for McDonald Property Group, having worked with Bruce McDonald since 1999.

She has a background of over 30 years in real estate and has negotiated and closed more than ten million SF of leases and sales transactions during her career. Karen currently manages approximately five million SF of industrial warehouse projects through McDonald Property Group as well as president of Thoroughbred Properties, Inc., an affiliate property management company of McDonald Property Group.

Karen was previously Vice President of Asset Management at DEXUS (an Australian based real estate holding organization), responsible for 8 million square feet of industrial warehouse projects in DEXUS’ West Coast Portfolio and located throughout the western United States, managing teams of third-party property managers, brokers and construction managers, successfully stabilizing the assets in preparation for a large portfolio sale. Prior to DEXUS, Karen was with Master Development Corporation (“MDC”) where during her tenure with MDC, she managed leasing and property management functions for approximately 3 million SF of industrial assets under management. Prior to MDC, she worked with LBA Realty.

Karen holds a California Real Estate License, Certified Property Management (CPM^®) designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management.