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A look at how JLL Technologies is an early mover in leveraging digital transformation to reinvent real estate

March 2022

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.

About Sanjay Sama

Sanjay Sama is a core member of Kingsley Gate Partners’ Fintech, Managed Services and Emerging Technology (Cyber/Cloud) services. He specializes in identifying C-level and other senior executives in functions spanning Product, Operations, Sales and Marketing for his clients.

Watch the full conversation between Sanjay Sama and Yen Lee in the video above!

Sanjay Sama
Vice President
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