Jaime Lee Joins Kennedy Wilson After Two Decades at L.A. Powerhouse Jamison
The longtime executive will be on the capital markets side at the Beverly Hills-based firm, which has $37 billion in assets under management
By Greg Cornfield August 19, 2026 4:50 pm
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After recently stepping down as the head of her family’s real estate firm — one of the most active developers in Los Angeles — Jaime Lee is taking a new role at Kennedy Wilson as senior managing director of capital markets and investments.
Kennedy Wilson has approximately $37 billion in assets under management across equity, credit and development strategies in the United States and Europe. The Beverly Hills-based investment management firm announced on Wednesday that it hired Lee.
Lee will help lead capital formation, strengthen relationships with institutional investors and strategic partners, and pursue investments across the company’s global platform, the announcement said.
The move follows more than two decades for Lee at Jamison, most recently as CEO, where she helped grow the family-run company’s portfolio to roughly 18 million square feet spanning office, multifamily, retail and medical properties, while establishing Jamison as one of Los Angeles’ most prolific office-to-residential developers.
The move to Kennedy Wilson also comes less than two months after the firm partnered with Jamison on a major joint venture targeting 4,000 affordable units across the city, beginning with the conversion of Downtown L.A.’s former World Trade Center into 512 apartments.
For her role at Jamison, Lee was regularly honored on Commercial Observer’s Power SoCal list, last year noting that Jamison had completed seven adaptive reuse projects since 2013, with three more under construction and another 10 in its pipeline at the time. At Kennedy Wilson, Lee is similarly bullish on multifamily.
“As investors evaluate where to allocate capital in this next cycle, there is a particularly compelling opportunity in multifamily, where constrained supply and durable housing demand are creating attractive long-term fundamentals,” Lee said in a statement.
Lee also serves on the executive committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games and as a California Coastal commissioner.
Gregory Cornfield can be reached at gcornfield@commercialobserver.com.
