Benjamin Bader

Now a senior director at HERE Technologies, Benjamin Bader formerly led the transaction advisory services group for Jones Lang LaSalle. In his 15-year tenure at the firm, he gained extensive experience managing global relationships and executed transactions on five continents. He has twice been recognized with the firm’s LaSalle Club award, won the 2008 JLL Collaboration Award, and has twice earned CoStar’s “Power Broker” award. Before joining JLL, he worked at China Enterprises, Inc., an import-export company trading Chinese goods with US and European customers, including three years living and working in Qingdao, China. He was a summer associate at Andersen Consulting’s China Strategy Group. Bader serves on the board of the British-American Business Council of Chicago, is a licensed broker in the State of Illinois, and holds a Six Sigma Green Belt certification. He earned a BA in international studies from Vassar College, and an international MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.