About
Experience
Travis McCready is the head of industries leasing advisory in the Americas for JLL and chair of the JLL Global Life Sciences Advisory Board. In this capacity, he oversees brokerage and advisory for JLL’s key global industry verticals, including life sciences, healthcare, data centers, energy, security & defense, technology, and higher education. He is also a member of the firm's Innovation Districts Practice, providing strategic advisory services to innovation districts across the world.
Travis has over 25 years of experience leading public, private, and non-profit ventures with a focus on science and technology-based real estate and innovation infrastructure. Outside of JLL, he remains active in the innovation community serving as board director of the global business accelerator MassChallenge, the global life sciences business enabler Nucleate, and Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He also serves in advisory capacities at Johns Hopkins University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Massachusetts, and the University of Toronto.
Education and affiliations
Travis received his B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University, and J.D. from the University of Iowa. He is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Medal from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and an honorary doctorate in engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology.