Jesse Michael, Senior Vice President, Digital Solutions, JLL

Jesse Michael is the SVP, Digital Solutions at Jones Lang Lasalle, where he partners with retailers, retail property owners, VC/PE firms, and internal teams to provide thought leadership on innovative business and planning processes, technology innovation, and strategic implementation/scaling across multiple organizational departments.Jesse has 15+ years of experience in the technology industry, having built and scaled his own company or was apart of leadership teams to grow from seed funding to Series A, B, and C respectively. Jesse previously served as the Managing Director at Adeptmind where he drove the business to an initial Series A of $6.2m USD while overseeing all operations, engineering, and revenue lines while building relationships with the retail and proptech investor community and over 200 owner/operators and retail landlords globally. Jesse held two prior Executive positions as the Managing Director for Stocard (Klarna), and Sr. Sales Director at Flipp, where he built and led partnerships with Fortune 500 Retailers and CPGs in North America en route to supporting a Series B raise of $15m USD in 2013 and Series C raise of $61m USD in 2016.