CHICAGO, April 17, 2015 – Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (NYSE: JLL) today announced certain prospective changes to the composition of its Board of Directors.
Samuel
A. Di Piazza, Jr. has been nominated to stand for election at our 2015
Annual Meeting. Mr. Di Piazza retired as Global Chief Executive Officer
of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. after a 36-year career at
the world’s largest professional services firm. He then served as Vice
Chairman of the Global Corporate and Investment Bank of Citigroup, Inc.
He is currently a member of the board of directors of each of DirecTV,
Inc. and ProAssurance, Inc., both public companies listed on the New
York Stock Exchange.
- Ann Marie Petach has also been
nominated to stand for election at our 2015 Annual Meeting. Ms. Petach
most recently served in several senior positions with BlackRock, Inc.,
the world’s largest investment management firm, including as its Chief
Financial Officer. Before that, she had a 23-year career with Ford Motor
Company culminating in her serving as its Treasurer. Ms. Petach remains
on the board of directors of certain of BlackRock’s affiliated
companies.
- Kate S. Lavelle, who has served on our Board
since 2013, including as a member of our Audit and Nominating &
Governance Committees, has decided not to stand for re-election at this
year’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders, to be held on May 29, 2015, in
order to devote additional time to a new business venture. All of our
other current directors are standing for re-election.
Sheila
Penrose, Chairman of the Jones Lang LaSalle Board of Directors, said,
“We appreciate Kate’s valued service on our Board and wish her well in
her future endeavours. We are very pleased to have individuals of the
calibre of Sam and Ann Marie as new nominees. Each of them has served in
senior leadership positions at some of the largest and most
sophisticated global organizations, and they will enhance an already
strong and diverse Board.”
Information about our 2015 Annual
Meeting, including additional biographical information about each of Mr.
Di Piazza and Ms. Petach, is provided in the Proxy Statement that JLL
is releasing today. In addition to Ms. Penrose and Ms. Lavelle, the
other current members of the JLL Board of Directors are Hugo Bagué,
Colin Dyer, Dame DeAnne Julius, Ming Lu, Martin H. Nesbitt, Shailesh
Rao, David B. Rickard and Roger T. Staubach.
About JLL
JLL
(NYSE: JLL) is a professional services and investment management firm
offering specialized real estate services to clients seeking increased
value by owning, occupying and investing in real estate. With annual fee
revenue of $4.7 billion and gross revenue of $5.4 billion, JLL has more
than 230 corporate offices, operates in 80 countries and has a global
workforce of approximately 58,000. On behalf of its clients, the firm
provides management and real estate outsourcing services for a property
portfolio of 3.4 billion square feet, or 316 million square meters, and
completed $118 billion in sales, acquisitions and finance transactions
in 2014. Its investment management business, LaSalle Investment
Management, has $53.6 billion of real estate assets under management.
JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle
Incorporated. For further information, visit www.jll.com.
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