Jaime Lee
Jaime Lee is the Chief Executive Officer of the Jamison group of companies, a
privately-held, family-run real estate business, which controls over 18 million square feet
of commercial office, retail, medical, and multifamily properties throughout Southern
California. Jamison has been one of the largest commercial landlords in Los Angeles
for the past twenty-five years. Since 2014, it has quickly become one of the city’s most
active multifamily developers as well, bringing to market 5,000 units with an additional
2,500 units currently under construction and 7,500 more in development.
Earning both BA and JD degrees from the University of Southern California, the Los
Angeles native currently sits on the USC Board of Trustees where she co-chairs the
Alumni Affairs and University Development committee and sits on the Executive, Audit
Compliance Risk & Privacy, Nominating & Governance, and Academic Affairs
committees. She is also a member of the Board of Councilors for the USC Dornsife
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and an Executive Committee member of the USC
Lusk Center for Real Estate. A longtime university volunteer, Jaime previously served
as President of the USC Alumni Association Board of Governors and President of the
USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association Board of Directors. Jaime is active with her high
school alma mater, where she is a member of the Harvard-Westlake Board of Trustees
and a founding member of its inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council.
Jaime is also involved in a number of civic and non-profit organizations at the city, state,
and community levels. She has served the City of Los Angeles as an appointed
commissioner under three different mayoral administrations. Appointed by Mayor Eric
Garcetti, she was elected President of the Board of Harbor Commissioners for the Port
of Los Angeles in April 2018, the largest container port by trade volume in the western
hemisphere. She also serves on the Mayor’s International Advisory Council and as co-
chair of the public-private partnership non-profit Global LA. 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 on
the boards for the Industrial Development Authority and the Quality and Productivity
Commission. She currently serves the State of California as Vice Chair of the California
Film Commission and previously spent seven years as a commissioner on the Speech
Language Pathology, Audiology & Hearing Aid Dispensers Board. Jaime is active in the
community as a board member of the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the
Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028 where she sits on the Executive, Compensation,
and Conflicts committees, the Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall, and the
Korean American Foundation Advisory Board.
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 by Asia Society Southern California as their 2020 Urban
Visionary, by the USC School of Architecture with their 2021 Distinguished Business
Leadership Award, and in 2022 with the LA Parks Foundation’s Rose Award and a Los
Angeles Times Woman of Influence Award.
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children.
Jamison Realty
CEO