Background
Martin, Lauralee was born in 1951.
advocate financial analyst president Chief Executive Officer
Martin, Lauralee was born in 1951.
Bachelor, Oregon State University, 1972. Master of Business Administration, University Connecticut, 1977.
Previous to her role at HCP, Martin was chief executive of the Americas division of Jones Language LaSalle. Martin received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Oregon State University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Connecticut where she was also inducted into their Hall of Fame. After graduation, she was a financial analyst at General Electric Capital.
She worked briefly within the consumer products group but then worked throughout their real estate businesses such as: started the Real Estate Sale Leaseback Business, strategic planner involved with the sale of the Residential Second Mortgage business, President of General Electric Mortgage which she sold to Commonwealth Savings and Loan, started their Commercial Construction loan business.
After leaving General Electric in 1987, Martin joined Heller Financial, rising to president of the Real Estate Finance Division. In 1995, she became the Corporate Chief Financial Officer, where she assisted with their Initial public offering in 1998.
The company was subsequently purchased by General Electric Capital Corporation for $5.3 billion in 2001. Martin was then hired as Chief Financial Officer at Jones Language LaSalle, then promoted to Chief Operating and Financial Office, and then in 2013 became Chief Executive Officer of the Americas Division.
She was on the board of Heller Financial, Jones Language LaSalle, and on theKeyCorp board from 2004 until 2010 and on the Gables Residential Trust board from 1994 to 2005.
She is an advocate of sustainability and energy conservation in commercial real estate development and was named one of Crain"s Chicago Business 25 women to watch.
Martin is a member of both the HCP and Kaiser Aluminum boards.