Paul Sill

Current responsibilities

Paul currently leads JLL’s Visionary Insights Group. In this role he is responsible for driving growth through predictive analytics, strengthening relationships with existing JLL retail clients, and managing the design and implementation of JLL’s proprietary, cloud-based, A/I enabled sales modeling platform VuePoint. He leads a team of software engineers, data scientists, and project managers ready to support client planning and strategic initiatives related to real estate and development.

Experience

Paul’s career began in 1994 in the real estate research department at Blockbuster Entertainment, helping to develop a sales forecasting tool in a geospatial environment during the peak of their global store expansion. From there, he specialized in retail data mining at Sears Roebuck and Co., developing a wide variety of forecasting models for numerous off-mall concepts.

Paul founded Forum Analytics in 2001 to build upon his experience combining complex analytics with cutting-edge mapping technology. Under his leadership, Forum Analytics introduced numerous industry-changing platforms during the dawn of the AI revolution, most notable the Strategic Integrated Mapping and Modeling System (SIMMS), Cannibalytics and Shopographics, the first real estate specific segmentation data product. He sold Forum Analytics in 2015 to CBREand remained there as Senior Managing Director and Global Retail Analytics Practice Leader.

Education and affiliations

Paul holds a Master of Science in Urban Economic Geography and is an Adjunct Professor of Geography at DePaul University in Chicago teaching real estate analytics and geography coursework. He has also taught retail analytic coursework at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, on behalf of the International Council of Shopping Centers, and has spoken at numerous national conventions on retail and research related topics.