Christine Chao

Director, Marketing & Communications

Location

San Francisco, California USA

Hobbies

Exploring new cultures and watching her kids play sports.

Favorite building

Cathedral de Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy

Christine leads marketing and communications for JLL Spark. She is responsible for elevating the Spark brand within the venture capital, tech, and real estate communities by developing and executing the media strategy for the global venture fund. Christine also partners with the JLL and JLL Technologies corporate communications teams to amplify internal awareness of Spark.

Prior to joining the JLL Spark team, Christine was the communications lead for BakerHughesC3.ai, a joint venture developing industrial AI and machine learning. Before that, she managed marketing programs for tech and consulting firms.

Christine holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Latest posts

  • Spark Notes and a feature on VergeSense, the occupancy intelligence platform

    Smart building technology has become essential for enterprises as the corporate world continues to define the new meaning of work, especially for “return to office” strategies.

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  • Spark Notes and a portfolio company feature on Safehub

    Smart building trends vary across global regions with the common goal to achieve sustainability and energy efficiency while enhancing safety and building security

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  • Spark Notes and an overview of global smart building trends

    At JLL Spark, we track smart building trends on a worldwide scale, recognizing the overarching priority of energy efficiency and sustainability.

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  • Spark Notes and a deep dive on Proda to revolutionize rent roll data processing

    Real estate asset managers rely on high fidelity rent roll data to evaluate portfolio performance. However, these data sets are often fragmented in addition to the manual process of collecting and standardizing the data.

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  • Spark Notes and a FinTech feature on Sertis, insurance tech for multifamily portfolios

    At JLL Spark, we focus on making impactful investments in technology that reshapes the real estate industry. A key pillar in our investment thesis looks at the inevitable intersection of FinTech and CRE.

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  • Spark Notes – Danny Klein, VP of Innovation, shares insight on the potential CRE market recovery

    As inflation continues to ease and the timing of policy rate reductions becomes clearer, the momentum in the CRE market is expected to build, with the second half of 2024 and 2025 being potentially transformative.

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