JLL appointed Travis McCready as the Head of Industries, Leasing Advisory.
In this new role, McCready now oversees brokerage and advisory for JLL’s key global industry verticals, including Aerospace and Defense, Data Centers, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Higher Education, Life Sciences and Technology.
McCready has amassed more than 25 years of experience leading public, private and non-profit organizations. His expertise in science and technology-based real estate and innovation infrastructure supports pharmaceutical and biotech clients in their mission to deliver groundbreaking medicines and therapies to patients around the world. Based in Boston, he joined JLL in 2020 as Head of Life Sciences, Americas Markets. He also chairs JLL’s Global Life Sciences Advisory Board and is a member of the firm’s Innovation Districts Practice that provides strategic advisory services across the world.
McCready seeks to ensure JLL’s platform delivers the highest level of expertise, service and strategic engagement to industries that rely on real estate and infrastructure to deliver value. He’s focused on deepening relationships with clients across various sectors to provide innovative real estate strategies and services tailored to each core global industry’s unique business model.
Outside of JLL, he is active in the global innovation community, serving as board director of global business accelerator MassChallenge; global life sciences business enabler Nucleate; Canadian life sciences ecosystem builder adMare BioInnovations and Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He also serves in advisory capacities at numerous R1 research universities, including Johns Hopkins University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Massachusetts and the University of Toronto.
McCready succeeds Executive Managing Director David Houck, who has spent more than 30 years in a variety of leadership roles at JLL and is stepping back from day-to-day management responsibilities to focus on other initiatives within the company.
