CHICAGO, July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jones Lang LaSalle
Incorporated (NYSE: JLL) today announced that Roger T. Staubach has been
elected as a member of its Board of Directors.
Mr. Staubach is the Executive Chairman of the firm's Americas region.
He assumed that role on July 11, 2008, when Jones Lang LaSalle completed
the previously announced transaction to merge its operations with The
Staubach Company, the leading real estate services firm specializing in
tenant representation in the United States.
Mr. Staubach founded The Staubach Company in 1977 and served as its
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until June 2007, when he became its
Executive Chairman. A 1965 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Mr.
Staubach served for four years as a Navy officer. He then joined the Dallas
Cowboys professional football team, from which he retired in March 1980.
Mr. Staubach is a member of the board of directors of AMR Corporation,
the parent company of American Airlines, and Cinemark Holdings, Inc., the
third largest movie exhibitor in the United States, and is also the
Chairman of the Host Committee for Super Bowl XLV, which will be held in
North Texas in 2011. He has received numerous honors for his leadership in
business, civic, philanthropic and athletic activities, including the 2006
Congressional Medal of Honor "Patriot Award" and the 2007 Horatio Alger
Award. He has also been inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame and
named a "Distinguished Graduate" by the United States Naval Academy.
Sheila Penrose, Chairman of the Jones Lang LaSalle Board of Directors,
said, "We warmly welcome Roger to our Board. He brings a strong combination
of entrepreneurial and large public company experiences that will enhance
the strength of our Board and its value to the organization."
Colin Dyer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jones Lang
LaSalle, added, "Roger has been highly successful in developing the
significant corporate relationships that his firm brings to ours. We look
forward to the professionalism, drive and marketing sophistication that he
will contribute to our Americas management as well as to our Board."
Mr. Staubach will initially serve a term that will expire at the
Company's 2009 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. His appointment brings the
Jones Lang LaSalle Board to a total of nine Directors. In addition to Ms.
Penrose and Mr. Dyer, the other current members of the Board are
Henri-Claude de Bettignies, Darryl Hartley-Leonard, Lauralee E. Martin,
Alain Monie, David B. Rickard and Thomas C. Theobald.
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