Yao Morin is chief data officer at JLL Technologies (JLLT), a business division of JLL dedicated to commercial real estate (CRE) technology, where she leads the global data strategy, product roadmap and delivery. As CDO, Yao has helped refine and accelerate JLL’s approach to gathering, extracting, storing and leveraging data assets across its businesses to create new value for investors, occupiers and the broader organization.  

Prior to JLLT, Yao served as chief data officer and head of U.S. engineering at StubHub, where she defined and championed StubHub’s company-wide data strategy and oversaw the execution of a complete data transformation. She also drove the development and modernization of Intuit’s data infrastructure as head of data science and machine learning engineering/principal data scientist. Earlier in her career, Yao was a research scientist at Intellisis and Parietal Systems, and she served as a science adviser for Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. 

Yao holds doctorate and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, as well a bachelor’s degree in information engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. She is based in San Francisco, California.