---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001037976-25-000023"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JLL"
cik: "0001037976"
company_name: "JONES LANG LASALLE INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T06:41:47.364627+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# JLL CFO Karen Brennan appointed CEO of Leasing Advisory; Kelly Howe named CFO effective July 1, 2025

## Summary
- Karen Brennan (current CFO) becomes CEO of Leasing Advisory globally, effective July 1, 2025; remains on Global Executive Board.
- Kelly Howe, current Leasing Advisory CFO, succeeds Brennan as JLL CFO, reporting to CEO Christian Ulbrich, effective July 1, 2025.
- Howe's compensation: $600K base salary, 2025 GEB AIP target $1M (prorated 50%), GEB LTIP target $1.5M, one-time RSU grant of $675K.
- Howe joined JLL in Jan 2024; prior CFO for North America at Boston Consulting Group; no family or reportable transactions.
- Andy Poppink steps down from Global Executive Board but continues as CEO, Leasing Advisory, EMEA and APAC, reporting to Brennan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001037976-25-000023
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JLL
- cik: 0001037976
- company_name: JONES LANG LASALLE INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037976/000103797625000023/0001037976-25-000023-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037976/000103797625000023/jll-20250503.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001037976-25-000023.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Karen Brennan was appointed as CEO of Leasing Advisory at JONES LANG LASALLE INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: CEO of Leasing Advisory
  source text: On May 7, 2025, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (the “Company” or “JLL”) announced that Karen Brennan, currently the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and a member of JLL’s Global Executive Board (“GEB”), will assume a new role as the Company’s CEO of Leasing Advisory, effective July 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037976/000103797625000023/0001037976-25-000023-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kelly Howe was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at JONES LANG LASALLE INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: In connection with Ms. Brennan’s transition into her new role, the Company also announced the appointment of Kelly Howe, 53, as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective July 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037976/000103797625000023/0001037976-25-000023-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.