Lily Ellis

In her role as Director of Workplace Experience, EMEA & APAC at NetApp Lily leads a dispersed and diverse team in curating workplace experience to support flexible, hybrid, people centred workplaces of the future.

A Property Economics Graduate with an MBA in Construction Real Estate, Lily is a Chartered Surveyor and Fellow of SCSI/RICS and Chair of the SCSI PMFM Group.

She was recognised by her peers as a Top Workplace Leader in 2023 and has consistently led her teams to win and retain industry accredited awards year on year including People Development, Client Partnership and ROSPA Awards.

With over 20 years’ experience across commercial, retail, mixed use and residential assets Lily has a proven record of leading teams to develop and implement real estate and workplace solutions that anticipate employee needs and outperform key performance indicators.

She is recognised as a leader to innovate, pilot, evaluate and transfer best practices across accounts through community forums and account transformation.

Prior to joining CBRE Lily spent almost seven years in JLL where she sat on the JLL UK Work Dynamics Future Board, was a founding leader of the JLL EMEA WBN and Co Chair of the Ideation pillar.

In her time in JLL Lily led teams across EMEA LATAM and the US West Coast for fast paced technology clients including Google, LinkedIn, Meta and Twitter, winning various global competitive tenders, and leading them through mobilisation to operational excellence.