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JLL: Strategic Hiring
JLL hired Dennis Borowsky as Senior Vice President to expand its Southern California retail brokerage team, bringing deep industry relationships and multi-channel expertise across leasing, development, and brokerage.
Source: citybiz — regional US deals
The leadership read
A deliberate hiring build-out is a statement of intent about JLL's next phase in Sales. It points to deepening executive bench strength over the coming quarters, clustered around the capabilities being bet on. Across Americas, the seniority and function of the hires map where the company thinks it is headed.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 104 (Hot) (down 1.9 month-on-month), Americas is at rising (+2.1pts) on signal share.
JLL: 5 signals in the last 90 days — above the Sales median of 1 across 23 tracked companies; 0.3% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow; 6 tracked across 95 days.
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