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Cook joins Jones Lang LaSalle as sr. vice president

According to Jones Lang LaSalle, Ellen Cook has joined the company as senior vice president on the corporate solutions team. She will manage real estate portfolio transactions worldwide for client Iron Mountain Inc. The portfolio includes 65 million s/f in 1,000 locations. Prior to joining Jones Lang LaSalle, Cook was an account director with Cushman & Wakefield, where she managed real estate transactions for General Electric and Lucent Technologies. Prior to that she served as senior marketing Manager for AT&T Wireless. Cook brings 10 years of commercial real estate experience, and has completed transactions in all major U.S. markets as well as global assignments. With a masters degree in Social Work from Fordham University, Cook was a clinical social worker at Yale Psychiatric Institute, Stamford Hospital, and in the Trumbull, Conn. public schools prior to her real estate career. She has a bachelors degree from Boston College in Marketing. Ms. Cook is actively involved in numerous industry and civic organizations including CoreNet, New England Women in Real Estate, the Boston College High School Mother's Guild, and Boston College Alumni Association.
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