Travis McCready

Travis McCready is the head of life sciences markets in the Americas for JLL, one of the largest commercial real estate advisories in the world. In this capacity, he leads a multi-country platform that includes brokerage, project management, consulting & advisory, and valuation services for life sciences companies, developers and investors. He also co-leads the firm's Innovation Districts Practice, helping to plan, build and finance innovation districts all over the world. Travis has over 25 years of experience leading public, private, and non-profit ventures with a focus on science and technology-based real estate and innovation infrastructure. The first chief executive of the Kendall Square Association and former President & CEO of the $1.6 billion life sciences funding agency Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, Travis is passionate about supporting science and tech-based entrepreneurship, and he is a frequent speaker on the evolving role of science and technology-based innovation infrastructure in ecosystems across the globe. Outside of JLL, he founded Upshift Innovation, providing innovation & entrepreneurship strategies to institutional clients globally. He remains active in the innovation community serving as board director of the global business accelerator MassChallenge, the global life sciences business enabler Nucleate, the Canadian life sciences ecosystem builder adMare Bioinnovations, and Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He also serves in advisory capacities at Harvard University, MIT, Johns Hopkins University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Toronto. Travis received his B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University, and J.D. from the University of Iowa. He is the recipient of the Chancellor's Medal from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and an honorary doctorate in engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology.