Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER - PARTNER
Karra is Chief Financial Officer and a partner with esrp, directly involved with the firm’s overall vision, growth, finances and strategy. She couples her 25+ years of commercial real estate experience with her extensive financial acumen. Karra is a licensed CPA, who has a broad background in general management, financial management, real estate, and consulting, along with immense experience in complex real estate transactions and considerable knowledge of GAAP, accounting policies & procedures, and financial projections for procurement of debt or funding. She is also an expert in FASB lease accounting. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Dan, and has three children.
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
―Will Rogers
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Karra is Chief Financial Officer and a partner with esrp, directly involved with the firm’s overall vision, growth, finances and strategy. She couples her 25+ years of commercial real estate experience with her extensive financial acumen. Karra is a licensed CPA, who has a broad background in general management, financial management, real estate, and consulting, along with immense experience in complex real estate transactions and considerable knowledge of GAAP, accounting policies & procedures, and financial projections for procurement of debt or funding. She is also an expert in FASB lease accounting. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Dan, and has three children.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Karra spent 15 years as a full-time commercial real estate broker at The Staubach Company and at Transwestern. She has completed millions of square feet of complex real estate transactions. Representative transactions include:
Radioshack
1,000,000 SF corporate headquarters build-to-suit (now Tarrant County College)
Mary Kay Corporation
500,000 SF corporate headquarters purchase, multiple large transactions across the United States
First Horizon/First Tennessee National Bank
300,000 SF mortgage loan office
NTT DATA
200,000 SF Frisco lease
Baron & Budd, P.C.
160,000 SF corporate headquarter lease
Allegro Development
40,000 SF
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
World Headquarters
Alston & Bird, LLP
Dallas office lease
American Heart Association
Multiple transactions
AFFILIATIONS + RECOGNITION
Leadership Dallas Alumni
Licensed CPA
Dallas Business Journal
"Heavy Hitters" List and "Top 40 Under 40"
Staubach Top Gun
Two years (one of the top national producers)
Staubach Top Achiever for 11 years
Transwestern's President's Award
EDUCATION
Karra received a BBA in accounting and marketing from Southern Methodist University and has dual MBAs from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and London Business School.
COMMUNITY
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas
Previous Board Member
American Heart Association
Previous Board Member
Real Estate Committee at KIPP Austin Public Schools
My Possibilities
Austin Street Shelter
Children’s Hunger Fund