Katie Kim

Katie grew up in a construction and real estate family with her grandfather starting Horan & Company in 1948.  The construction division was purchased by her mother and father in 1993 and named Horan Construction, Inc. Katie grew up helping her dad on the jobsites on the weekend and her mom in the office on school holidays and breaks, which provided Katie insight into the operations and processes on the jobsites (aka in the field) as well as how those effect operations within the office. Katie would often help with the construction and real estate side of operations with Katie’s first real estate transaction happening at the age of 15.

Katie graduated from the University of Iowa in 2001 with a BS in Computer Science and went to work for Accenture Technology Labs in Chicago.  There Katie worked with technology 3-5 years to market to find strategic profitable solutions to implement into corporations.  She worked all over the world in places such as Hong Kong, China, Amsterdam, and London to name a few.  Katie left Accenture in 2005 to go to work for a tech startup called Endeca.  During this timeframe, Katie also obtained her Masters Degree in Computer Information Systems. Then in 2007, Katie and her husband, Charles, made the decision to come home to Peoria to take over the family construction business.  In 2015, Katie left the family business in order to relaunch The Kim Group, which she and her husband started in 2004.  The relaunch included adding a Professional Service division to The Kim Group’s suite of services in order to aid businesses in their strategic growth plans and execution as well as aid them and individuals who wanted to do development projects but did not know how.  The Professional Service division is the largest division within The Kim Group as it is filling a void of coaching individuals and businesses through the development and strategic growth process from beginning to end.  Katie has the ability to see opportunities where others cannot and figures out how to connect people and organizations together to make it a reality. She coined the phrase “pollinated collisions” and encourages everyone to make one daily and make a positive impact through this pollinated ripple effect.