Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) has promoted Marie-Claire Cunningham to executive VP from senior VP. Cunningham is a senior member of JLL's corporate account management team in N.Y. Since 2007, she has been the transaction's platform lead for the company's work with a major financial institution, providing best practices, reporting and training for the office and retail leasing team. Previously, she managed the retail leasing group for the bank's 500 branches in the U.S. Prior to joining JLL, she served in the corporate services group at GVA Williams, now FirstService Williams, where she transacted more than 2 million s/f in acquisitions and dispositions in multiple markets. Earlier, she worked as real estate manager for Colgate-Palmolive Co., where she completed the disposition of 8 million s/f of development rights in Jersey City, N.J., and the restructuring of the company's world headquarters lease at 300 Park Ave. Cunningham began her real estate career at Corporate Property Investors, now Simon Property Group, serving as an assistant VP with its asset management group. She expanded and renovated several shopping centers including Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, one of the top-ranked malls in the country. Cunningham was also responsible for managing CPI's annual appraisal of its multibillion dollar portfolio. Cunningham received a bachelor's degree in Finance and International Business from New York University. She is a licensed real estate salesperson in NYS. Cunningham served as president of the Association of Real Estate Women in New York (AREW) from 2003 to 2004 and was a member of a special committee that evaluated and negotiated AREW's recently announced affiliation with Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW). She was named one of the top 50 women in real estate in June 2004 by AREW and Real Estate Weekly. Cunningham received the Irish American Building Society's Award of Honor in Real Estate in May 2006. She has also participated as a panelist at Columbia University's Real Estate Roundtable programs and at New York University's Real Estate Institute and has been a New York City Ballet volunteer since 1993.