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ELYSE JOHNSON SANTIC Head of PDS Operations, Americas 1290 Avenue of the Americas | New York, NY 10104 | Direct +1 212-328-4255 | elyse.johnson@cushwake.com

Prior to joining Cushman &Wakefield, Elyse was a Senior Project Manager for Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) where she managed the design and construction of projects for Aetna Life Insurance Company, Aspen Specialty, the Apollo Theater Walk of Fame, BT Americas, Convergent Wealth Advisors, Diageo, Healthfirst, Macmillan, Medidata Solutions, NYS Department of Transportation, and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Prior to JLL, she was a Senior Project Manager for the Interiors Studio at Corgan Associates Architects PC where she managed the design and construction of projects for Hallmark Magazine, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Citigroup’s 100,000 SF disaster recovery facility and the relocation of the corporate headquarters for Capital Mercury Apparel, Ltd and North American Airlines. Her experience also includes five years as a Project Manager at TPG Architecture, LLC (TPG). While at TPG, she managed the design and construction of projects such as Marsh & McLennan Companies, MTV Networks, NBC Universal, New York Life Insurance Company Studio 51, and the award winning 350,000 SF global headquarters of CNBC. Elyse began her professional career in the architectural acoustics field at Walters-Storyk Design Group and was part of the design teams for Alan May Listening Room/Home Theatre, Allaire Studios, Carter Burwell Studios, Ex’Pression Centre for New Media, James Earl Jones Theater, Lower East Side, and Timbaland Studios.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE Elyse A. Johnson Šantić joined Cushman &Wakefield in 2013 as the Global Occupier Services (GOS) Account Director of the project management and support staff located throughout North America providing Project Management services to a global financial institution. In December 2015, she moved into Cushman & Wakefield’s Corporate Real Estate Services department as the Global Project Management Lead to oversee the development, execution and ongoing management of the global real estate strategy at the portfolio and individual site level to align with the firm’s business unit goals and objectives for markets throughout the globe. She directed the strategic planning and project activities at all Cushman &Wakefield locations in order to achieve a consistent delivery of the company’s workplace and technology strategy to align with the firm’s purpose, culture, and brand. In April 2018, Elyse was promoted to the Head of PDS Operations, Americas for Cushman &Wakefield’s Project & Development Services (PDS) department where she is responsible for the development and operation of PDS’ market leading operating model for the delivery of capital projects for Cushman &Wakefield’s clients and to lead the PDS team to achieve consistency and efficiency. She champions the development and delivery of initiatives to provide outstanding customer service and customer advocacy, operational effectiveness and control, management of risk, training and mentoring, business continuity, governance and collaboration/cross-selling with other Cushman &Wakefield service lines. Elyse has over 20 years of architecture, design, project management, and real estate experience for corporate broadcasting, studio, corporate interiors, showroom/ retail, financial, and disaster recovery facilities projects providing account management, strategic planning, workplace strategy, pre-lease services, programming, design, construction documents, consultant coordination, budgeting, procurement, scheduling, and construction administration services.