Cynthia Kantor

Cynthia Kantor

CEO, Project & Development Services (PDS)

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Cynthia Kantor is the CEO of the Project and Development Services business at JLL. In this role, Cynthia leads a $3B global design and construction management business division, overseeing a team of more than 9,000 people across 80+ markets.

Cynthia previously served as Chief Client and Growth Officer of JLL’s $14B global Work Dynamics division, where she developed and implemented a product strategy to create standard, replicable solutions for service delivery, enabling the team to scale their offerings for the benefit of clients and shareholders. She concurrently created the go-to-market plan for scaling up and built a front-end team for deployment, revising the division’s compensation structure and influencing a company culture that inspired success.

The strategy achieved consistent, double-digit top-line growth and historic levels of new business in a market hampered by the global pandemic. In addition to closing 90% of Work Dynamics’ client pipeline, Cynthia’s team won multiple off-market top competitor accounts.

Earlier in her career, Cynthia leveraged her technical expertise to drive revenue growth strategies across multiple sectors of the GE portfolio. She spearheaded a restructuring of GE Energy’s $650M Environmental Services division, executing portfolio and product rationalization including business line exits, divestitures and capital reallocation to grow the more profitable core business. The result was double-digit revenue and margin growth. Cynthia was a key leader at GE Aviation through the 9/11 industry crisis in her role as Chief Risk and Portfolio Executive, managing the team through contract renegotiations, internal restructuring, and global risk management of the organization’s $2B portfolio.

Cynthia is a passionate developer of talent and previously led the Accelerated Executive Development program for GE Power. She is devoted to developing diverse talent in commercial and revenue generating roles.

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