Stephen leaves JLL for F&C, Max Property directorships

Jones Lang LaSalle has announced that John Stephen, chairman of its English business, is to retire from the firm to take up a series of external property roles. These include directorships of F&C Commercial Property Trust and Max Property Group, adviser to Evans Property Group and a trustee of the Portman Estate.

Stephen has been with Jones Lang LaSalle for 36 years and a partner/director for nearly 30 years. JLL said that in his six years as chairman, he worked first with Alastair Hughes, then Andy Mottram and with current English CEO , Andrew Gould in reshaping the English business.

He spent five years in the 1980s with the firm's Far East operation, initially in Hong Kong and then in Tokyo before returning to the City Investment/Development team in time for the Big Bang office development boom in the late 1980s. He later moved to the West End to set up the firm’s specialist West End Investment team.

Stephen is tto leave JLL at the end of October and his successor of JLL's English business will be announced shortly.