Chief Financial Officer | ARK Homes For Rent

Wendy Gill serves as the Chief Financial Officer for ARK Homes for Rent, overseeing all accounting and reporting functions and supporting the company’s corporate initiatives, including strategic financial planning. She has more than 25 years of accounting and finance experience, with an emphasis on the real estate sector and serving institutional investors. Wendy’s career path reflects long-term dedication to organizations while serving in progressively senior roles, establishing and growing public and private company financial and operating platforms, and significant experience with large transactions and integrations. She has a proven track record of adapting to dynamic and complex operating environments and possesses in-depth knowledge of technical accounting rules and institutional financial reporting.

Prior to joining ARK Homes for Rent, Wendy served as Interim Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, and Chief of Corporate Operations for Columbia Property Trust (NYSE: CXP), a publicly traded U.S. Real Estate Investment Trust that owns and operates office and retail properties in gateway markets. At Columbia Property Trust, Wendy led preparations for a NYSE listing and concurrent tender offer, including the acquisition of the predecessor advisory company, implementing public company financial reporting and governance systems, and establishing a full suite of corporate operations. She served as management’s liaison to the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors. Wendy coordinated finance and accounting for merger-and-acquisition activities, including Columbia Property Trust’s go-private transaction in December 2021. Under private-equity ownership, Wendy restructured finance, accounting, reporting, and corporate functions to serve the new investors’ interests and worked with lenders and advisors to modify more than $2.0 billion of structured and secured debt.

Previously, Wendy served at Wells Real Estate Funds, Columbia Property Trust’s predecessor advisory firm, for 11 years in progressively senior roles, culminating in Chief Accounting Officer for a series of publicly registered non-traded REITs and funds. During her tenure at Wells Real Estate Funds, Wendy rebuilt the firm’s accounting and finance functions to support rapid growth, significantly expanded the firm’s SEC financial reporting and GAAP accounting capabilities, and led the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley.

Earlier in her career, she worked for Arthur Andersen as an audit and assurance manager in the firm’s Atlanta and Washington, D.C., offices with a focus on clients in the real estate, hospitality, and financial services industries.

Wendy holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Delaware. She is a Certified Public Accountant licensed by the state of Maryland and an emeritus member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts’ Best Practices Financial Council.