Yao Morin On Being JLL's First Chief Technology Officer

Yao Morin, JLL’s new first chief technology officer, has got her hands full as JLL undergoes “technology transformation,” as she tells GlobeSt.com. That includes more than a thousand software engineers, data engineers, data scientists, and analysts in JLL Technology. It sounds like a lot of people, and is, but still chalks up only a percent or so of the company’s full global size of 100,000 employees across 84 countries.

“Our strategy is a healthy balance of build, buy, and partner,” Morin says, referring to a traditional breakout for technical organizations. That includes building what requires core expertise and then buy or partners to bring in other capabilities. There’s also a lot of consolidation that needs to happen.