ULI Europe Chairman

JON H. ZEHNER

Jon H. Zehner is global head of the client capital group for LaSalle Investment Management and was appointed as ULI Europe Chairman for a two-year term on 1 July 2016.

Zehner graduated with an AB in Economics from Dartmouth and an MBA from Harvard.  He began his career in real estate at JP Morgan, where he worked for 28 years and held a number of senior positions, including Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking and Head of Sub-Saharan Africa.  Zehner subsequently served as Senior Director at AREA Property Partners, where he was responsible for client relationships, deal origination and strategic development.

In 2012, Zehner joined LaSalle Investment Management, where he now oversees the firm’s global activities relating to clients raising capital, product development, and marketing and communications.

ULI Europe Chief Executive Officer

LISETTE VAN DOORN

As chief executive of ULI Europe, van Doorn is responsible for the development of the Institute’s activities across the region, including its renowned pan-European conferences and over 250 local meetings and events across 14 countries. She is also responsible for the ULI Charitable Trust, which raises money to advance ULI’s mission and philanthropic activities across Europe.

Van Doorn joined ULI from LIRE, her own consultancy business, which advises international institutional real estate investors and fund managers on strategy, organisational optimisation and portfolio structuring.

Prior to this, van Doorn was country manager for CBRE Global Investors where she managed a €1.6bn portfolio of assets in Italy and fund manager of two shopping centre funds (€ 1.3 billion) with assets in Spain, Portugal and Italy.

Before joining CBRE Global Investors, van Doorn was founding chief executive for INREV, the European association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles for four and a half years. She started her career at ING Investment Management, where she held account manager and assistant controller positions before being made managing director of research & strategy for ING Real Estate Investment Management Europe.

ULI Europe Executive Committee