Karen Garner-Wing, Principal

Ms. Garner-Wing joined Walker & Company, LLP, as a consultant working on the Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) Data Mining Project in early 2003 after retiring from the Federal government with 23 years of experience at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). At HUD, she served as Branch Chief in the Quality Assurance Division and subsequently oversaw FHA's three divisions with primary risk control functions as the Deputy Director, Office of Lender Activities and Program Compliance. As Director of the Lender Approval and Recertication Division, Ms. Garner-Wing was responsible for oversight of FHA's "gate-keeping" function, i.e. determining the business partners through which FHA could offer its mortgage insurance programs.

Ms. Garner-Wing leads the Government Outsourcing and Training/Technical Assistance efforts of Walker & Company, overseeing a broad range of projects including single-family and multi-family programs and a national borrower program service center.

Ms. Garner-Wing received her Bachelors degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.