Jaime Lee is the Chief Executive Officer of the Jamison group of companies, a privately-held, family-run real estate enterprise with a net asset value of over $3 billion. Jamison controls over 18 million square feet of commercial office, retail, medical, and multifamily properties throughout Southern California and has delivered 6,500 apartment units in the City of Los Angeles with a total pipeline of over 12,000 units, making Jamison one of LA’s most active developers and a national leader in adaptive reuse conversions.
Jaime is a dynamic and seasoned fiduciary board member and has served on over thirty corporate, civic, and non-profit boards at the city, state, and community levels. She is currently an independent director for the James Campbell Company, a $5.3 billion Hawaii-based private real estate group, a trustee at the University of Southern California, a board member for the LA 2028 Olympics games, and a commissioner on the State of California’s HOPE for Children Board along with many others. She served the City of Los Angeles for thirteen years as a commissioner under three different mayoral administrations. From 2018 to 2023 she was the President of the Board of Harbor Commissioners for the Port of Los Angeles, the largest port by trade volume in the western hemisphere where she led with distinction through the pandemic and ensuing container crisis. She previously served for four years as President of the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System Board of Administration, which oversees the City’s $22 billion employee pension fund, and as Vice Chair of the California Film Commission.
Recognized for her professional and civic contributions, Jaime has been named one of the 500 most influential people in Los Angeles by the LA Business Journal every year since 2018. She was honored as one of the 101 most influential people on the LA Times’ inaugural LA Influential list and has received a Los Angeles Times Women of Influence Award alongside awards from the LA Parks Foundation, Asia Society Southern California, the USC School of Architecture, the USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association, and Asian American Architects & Engineers.
