Press Release
Atlanta, GA, USA, March 26, 2025 — Kimberly Hong has joined Ahlers & Ogletree and will serve as the Atlanta auction powerhouse’s Director of Sales & Business Development, Trusts & Estates, and Private Clients. She will play a critical role in expanding the company’s business-to-business pipeline, managing and growing the sales team and broadening its market reach throughout Georgia and the Southeast.
“This role requires a results-driven leader with experience in relationship-building, business strategy and team management within the fine art, luxury goods, antiques and auction industries,” said Robert Ahlers, president and owner of The Ahlers Group, the corporate umbrella under which Ahlers & Ogletree and other related companies exist. “Kim Hong checks all those boxes and then some.”
This is actually Ms. Hong’s second stint with the firm. From 2014-2017 she served as the company’s Director of Consignments. In that capacity she oversaw auction cataloging and the photography staff; managed consignment intake; and worked with the strategy and management team. Before that she worked as a cataloger at Jackson’s International Auctioneers & Appraisers in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
After leaving A&O in 2017, she became the owner of Collected Appraisals and Advisory, an appraisal and advisory services firm based in Portland, Oregon. While in Portland, she also worked for The Fine Art Group (formerly Pall Mall Art Advisors) as a generalist appraiser. Her role later expanded to run the Mountain Territory.
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