How is the JLL Technologies model different when it comes to the digital transformation journey of commercial real estate? Yen Lee, Chief Strategy Officer, at JLL Technologies, speaks with Sanjay Sama, Vice President, Kingsley Gate Partners.

About Yen Lee

Yen Lee is the Chief Strategy Officer at JLL Technologies (JLLT) and President of JLLT China, a Fortune 500 global commercial real estate company. At JLLT, Yen helps determine investment initiatives in data, analytics, and technology to grow JLL’s core businesses and extend into new businesses and markets. These initiatives include sustainability, strategic investments, and global expansions.

Before joining JLL, he helped lead product and go-to-market teams to disrupt other industries like local (CitySearch), travel (WorldRes, Yahoo, Uptake), commerce (Ebates & Rakuten) with a specific interest in vertical applications of machine learning, building customer loyalty, and new customer experiences.

He occasionally invests and serves as a CEO advisor, helping scale teams and culture and planning and executing growth and exit strategies. A first-generation Canadian, he is committed to helping grow the Canadian technology ecosystem as a mentor and an investor.