Lauralee E. Martin was the president and CEO of HCP, Inc., a publicly traded healthcare

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based in

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. Previous to her role at HCP, Martin was chief executive of the Americas division of

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Education and experience

Martin received a

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degree in English from

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and a

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from the

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where she was also inducted into their Hall of Fame. After graduation, she was a financial analyst at

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. She worked briefly within the consumer products group but then worked throughout their real estate businesses such as: started the Real Estate Sale Leaseback Business, strategic planner involved with the sale of the Residential Second Mortgage business, President of General Electric Mortgage which she sold to Commonwealth Savings and Loan, started their Commercial Construction loan business.Chicago Business, May 7, 2007, "Lauralee Martin"
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Real estate

After leaving GE in 1987, Martin joined ''Heller Financial'', rising to president of the Real Estate Finance Division.https://archive.today/20130201093924/http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS279184+24-Apr-2008+BW20080424 Reuters, April 24, 2008, "HCP Announces Election of Lauralee Martin to Board of Directors" In 1995, she became the Corporate CFO, where she assisted with their

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in 1998. The company was subsequently purchased by General Electric Capital Corp. for $5.3 billion in 2001. Martin was then hired as CFO at Jones Lang LaSalle, then promoted to Chief Operating and Financial Office, and then in 2013 became CEO of the Americas Division. Martin joined HCP as CEO in October 2013 and remained in that capacity until July 12, 2016.

Boards

Martin is a member of Kaiser Aluminum, Marcus & Millichap,

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. She was on the board of ABM, HCP, Heller Financial, Jones Lang LaSalle, and on the KeyCorp board from 2004 until 2010 and on the ''Gables Residential Trust'' board from 1994 to 2005.

Conservation

She is an advocate of sustainability and energy conservation in commercial real estate development and was named one of

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, Lauralee Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Oregon State University alumni University of Connecticut alumni Businesspeople from Chicago American women in business 21st-century American women