Jim Hodges serves as the COO at HK Holdings. He has been involved in the real estate industry for the last forty years and has extensive experience in the business as a developer, financial officer, and certified public accountant.

Jim began his career with the international accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., where he ultimately led the real estate practice division of the Dallas office, with clients including Trammell Crow Company and Lincoln Property Company. He soon became a senior regional controller of Trammell Crow Company. As Chief Financial Officer, then Executive Vice President of the Equitable Grossman Dallas Company, otherwise known as Park Central, he was responsible for the development of office and hotel developments including The Sheraton Park Central Hotel, and Park Central Buildings VII, VIII, and IX. Jim was also President of a subsidiary of The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (the “Equitable”) which managed and asset managed Park Central. Jim took his talents to Triland International, Inc., completing, leasing and disposing of approximately 1.2 million square feet of office developments under construction by Triland.  

In 1988, Jim founded The Allegiance Group, Inc., which developed and managed more than 2,000 apartment units over the next ten (10) years.  And in 1997, he focused on developing his CPA practice, until retiring from Public Accounting in 2017.

Jim earned his BBA, Accounting from the University of Texas Arlington. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants’ and the Dallas Chapter of Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is also a licensed real estate broker. Jim received the CPA of the year award in 2001 from the North Texas Region of the United States Small Business Administration. He is Past-President of the Bishop Lynch High School Board and Past-President and Board member of Nexus Recovery Center, Inc., a recovery center for indigent women and their children located in east Dallas. He is also a past Board Member of the Family Studies Center in Dallas, a charity that counsels’ families on a sliding scale basis, and the Shelton School, a private school for learning different students.