Gant Hill & Associates LLC

As a Louisville native, April Tyler has an expansive amount of knowledge about her home city. She grew up and spent most of her childhood in Okolona and attended Southern High School.

She started her professional career in customer service with the largest domestic airline in the United States in 1994 and became a flight attendant in 1998.

Having always been fascinated by property, April delved into real estate in 2001 utilizing her strong customer service skills to quickly become a top producing agent. April joined Gant Hill & Associates in March 2020.

Specializing in Residential Real Estate, April honed her knowledge of the local and regional market enabling her to become a sought after investment strategist helping companies and individuals grow their rental, commercial and investment holdings.

With a passion to help others achieve their goals, she especially loves helping first-time home buyers fulfill their American Dream.

When she is not attending closings and showing houses, she is an avid cheerleader for her daughter’s successful volleyball career and her aviation background has given her the ‘travel bug’ to explore new cultures and travel the world.

Gant Hill, CCIM, is President and Principal Broker of Gant Hill & Associates.

With offices in Kentucky and Indiana, Gant Hill & Associates has real estate practitioners that specialize in commercial, residential, and business transactions.

First licensed to practice real estate at the age of 19, Gant graduated from the University of Louisville with a concentration in Finance and has had a successful career in real estate brokerage and investment since 1993.

Over his career, Gant has served for many non-profit and not-for-profit organizations including the Board of Directors of the Greater Louisville Board of Realtors, the CCIM Institute of Chicago, IL, and Coastal Equity Group of Charleston, SC to name a few.

Kathy Hinkebein is Vice President of Gant Hill & Associates.  Her engineering background (B.S. Purdue University) and diverse business experience make Kathy uniquely qualified to provide a wide range of real estate services.  She brings experience in both commercial and residential transactions and takes pride in creating unique solutions for her clients.

Kathy values the knowledge gained from membership in numerous professional organizations, including Urban Land Institute, Kentucky Chapter of CCIM, International Council of Shopping Centers, Venture Connectors, Leadership Louisville Center (Focus Louisville ’19), NAR, KAR, and GLAR.

Kathy gives her time and resources to various non-profit organizations across the Louisville community.  She is a member of the Board of Directors for Family Scholar House and the Co-Founder and former co-Producer of the Louisville Music Awards.

A Louisville Business First “Twenty People to Know in Real Estate” Designee in 2019, Lorianne is a commercial real estate advisor celebrating 28 years as a commercial real estate professional. Licensed in Kentucky and Illinois, Lori’s profile includes nationwide experience in leasing, management, sales and commercial development.

The opportunity to manage and negotiate hundreds of retail, restaurant, industrial, sale, lease, and commercial development projects for a major retailer established a unique and transitional foundation in commercial real estate. This included, but was not limited to the opportunity to work with some of the most successful developers in the world, helping develop major regional centers as well as neighborhood, specialty, department store and out parcel development across the country.

Lorianne’s commercial real estate career commenced in Chicago, Illinois – Sears Roebuck (Sears Tower) holding management positions in national retail, shopping center, industrial, land, and underutilized assets for over 16 years.

Lorianne served as a tenant representative, portfolio manager and real estate consultant for NEC Technologies, Itasca, Illinois.

Lorianne served as economic development director and real estate consultant in the central Kentucky region for several years, serving global industrial clients, business and industry leaders, and communities. This included the development of the Partners in Progress Economic Development program for global business and industry, created with industry leaders and delivered to the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development.

Robert Wang is Executive Vice President of Gant Hill & Associates.

A lifelong entrepreneur that has owned restaurants and a real estate finance business, Robert has been a real estate broker licensed since 2002.

As the leader of the Hospitality and Investment divisions, Robert has represented numerous high net worth individuals that have acquired both prominent businesses and real estate.

Over his career, Robert has served many not-for-profit organizations including the Board of Directors of American Red Cross (River Valley Chapter), the Board of Governors of the J.B. Speed Art Museum and has been past President of the Organization for the Chinese American Society, to name a few.

Born in Moline, Illinois, I primarily grew up in the Louisville, Kentucky Highlands Area and graduated from Atherton High School. Have lived in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Florida. Currently have immediate family located in Kentucky, Indiana and Texas. Married and Proud Parent of 10 Children, 6 Boys & 4 Girls. 

Business experiences include Business Consulting, New Business Start-up and Structuring, Competitive Business Acquisitions, Public Speaking in Corporate Environment, Recruiting-Interviewing-Training Personnel, Sales Marketing and Management Strategies. 

Educated at Western Kentucky University- Bowling Green, Kentucky, SMC Management Corporation- Dallas, Texas, Automated Security Holdings- Washington, DC. 

Full time Real Estate Brokerage Since 2001. Currently Licensed in Indiana & Kentucky. Specializing in Unique and Different Properties. 

Honest, Moral, and Dedicated to Professional Work Ethics. Take Pride in Work Performance and End Results. A Thinker, Problem Solver and Versatile. 

Believer in “What Goes Around, Comes Around”… “Do Unto Others”… “Don’t Burn Bridges” 

Current & Past Experiences Include: 

Managing Broker – GANT HILL & ASSOCIATES LLC, Indiana 
Principal Broker – WESLEY REALTY, LLC, Kentucky & Indiana 
Licensed, Full-time Commercial/Investment/Exchange Broker 
Focused in Kentucky – Indiana – Tennessee 

NAR – National Association of Realtors Member 
KCREA – Kentucky Commercial Real Estate Alliance-CIE Member 
GLAR – Greater Louisville Association of Realtors Member 
KREE – Kentucky Real Estate Exchangors- Member & President 2007, 2008 
IAR – Indiana Association of Realtors Member 
SIRA – Southern Indiana Realtor Association Member 
IREX – Indiana Real Estate Exchangors Member 

Aero Club of Louisville- Life Member & President 2011-2012 
Lifestyle Private Adult Care Home – Owner/Operator Lifestyle Investments of Indiana
City of Meadowview Estates – City Commissioner 2017-2018 
President/CEO- National Loss Prevention Services, Inc. 
Executive VP/GM-Sonitrol/Loss Prevention of Louisville 
Kentucky School Plant Management Association Speaker 
University of Louisville-Crime Prevention Institute Instructor 
Fire, Rescue, Diving and Emergency Medical Certifications 

McKenna Whorton is Louisville’s biggest fan and loves showing it off to her out of state clients. She is a mom to twin 13-year-old boys, and wife to her husband, Eric. She and her family, with their two rescue dogs, are happy to call Louisville’s Highlands neighborhood home, a part of town in which she specializes.

McKenna has been a real estate agent since 1992 and is a part-time preschool teach at Adath Jeshurun Preschool. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking and Segway tours.

With a full life of travel before her first day of sixth grade, Courtney Celasun was destined for the world of real estate before she was twelve.  She was born in Memphis, moved to Dayton, Ohio, then to Louisville, on to San Diego, then Columbia, South Carolina, and finally back to Louisville, when she began sixth grade.  After graduating from South Oldham, she attended the University of Cincinnati for Interior Design then moved to Charleston, SC, where she practiced for two years, then back to Louisville where she met her husband and moved to Istanbul, Turkey, (where he is from) for two years.  They married and returned to Louisville where Courtney returned to school at the University of Louisville and earned a degree in History and a masters in Urban Planning. She is also a graduate of the Leadership Louisville, Focus program.

Courtney and her husband have two beautiful children, Jace and Aylin, and live in Goshen. She has been with Gant Hill & Associates since 2009. 

Courtney loves helping people in whatever way she can from marketing to strategic planning, and event design assistance.

Judy Brown has been licensed to sell real estate for 31 years, with 26 of those years spent as a Principal Broker, in the states of Kentucky and Indiana.  She has acted both as a Broker and a Principal during that time, transacting in every type of residential property, including single family, mobile homes, condominiums and vacant lots, as well as every commercial property type.  She’s owned and managed her own real estate brokerage through most of her career, and managed every facet of the business, from recruitment and training, to accounting and strategic growth. Although she’s owned or brokered every type of real estate over the years, her specialties include single-family turnaround investment, creative marketing, multifamily property, 1031 tax-deferred exchange, and adaptive re-use of real estate through renovation and re-positioning to attain highest and best use of properties for herself and/or her clients.

She’s managed the conversion and marketing of multiple multifamily properties of over 100 units each, into condominiums, from conception through renovation and sell-off.  Through that process, she recruited, trained and managed both the sales and renovation staffs, as well as overseeing the underlying rental operation as sales were underway.  In each of these cases, creative and out-of-the-box marketing was required to re-position these assets in the buying public’s minds, so the ten years she spent in radio and television advertising prior to her real estate career proved very useful.  Her management and implementation of heavy multi-media marketing resulted in outstanding sold-out projects in record time.

She’s also been very active in the Kentucky Real Estate Exchangors, a private investing and counseling organization, since 1989, serving twice as President, and on the board for decades, as well as receiving “The Exchange of the Year” award from that organization in 1995, and the President’s Award in 2002.  

She is also a member of an affiliated group, the National Council of Exchangors, and regularly attends association meetings around the country with that group, transacting brokerage and investment deals with its members.  In addition to taking multiple CCIM courses early in her career, these exchangors groups offer continuous education in all facets of real estate, from creative financing and marketing, through renovation and management, most of which she has taken, thus earning the titles of Certified Exchange Counselor, and Equity Marketing Specialist.  

As a result, Judy has become adept at taking on and creatively working through any and all real estate challenges over the course of her career, both through education and “in the trenches” experience, having acquired, and/or brokered every type of real estate over the decades.  Her education and experience has prepared her well to maximize the value of nearly any property type or solve any real estate challenge today. 

Maggie French is a new agent in the Louisville area, but is no stranger to the city itself.  Her entrepreneurial spirit has brought her to Real Estate after spending over 10 years in the insurance industry. She is currently meeting the needs of Residential and Commercial clients at Gant Hill bringing with her a sales background focusing on exceptional client experiences. 

She spends her spare time watching sports, running, working out and spending time with her son and their dog, Gunner.  She is the President of a local Toastmasters club, and a lover of all things Louisville.

Originally a native of St. Simons Island, Georgia, Wright is no stranger to the great State of Kentucky.  For over 20 years he called Louisville and Lexington “homes away from home” while supporting his family’s passion for American Saddlebred horses.  In 2019, he and his wife moved to the Louisville area to continue that support and raise their family. Wright’s enthusiasm for real estate became evident ten years ago while in college on the GI Bill after six years of decorated service in the United States Air Force.  While completing his degrees, he remained focused on real estate investment and valuation as well as Veterans education and homelessness issues.  When he’s not focused on helping his clients achieve their financial goals or supporting veteran advocacy initiatives, you can usually find him enjoying life with his wife and children.