JLL hires premier Life Sciences tenant rep broker in San Diego

SAN DIEGO, CALIF., March 30, 2022 – With incredible life science/biotech growth in San Diego and throughout the United States, JLL announced that 28-year industry veteran Greg Bisconti has joined the firm as San Diego Life Science Tenant Rep Lead and Executive Managing Director. Based in JLL’s San Diego, California office, he will specialize exclusively in working with life sciences companies on their real estate and facility needs, both regionally and globally. He will also work with JLL leadership in expanding and enhancing a National Life Sciences Tenant Representation Group.

Bisconti joins JLL San Diego’s Life Sciences experts Chad Urie and Grant Schoneman, who rank among the top producing brokers in the country for the firm. This partnership builds upon JLL’s best-in-class team focused exclusively on life sciences occupier and investor clients’ unique needs. Collectively, the JLL San Diego team will have represented more life sciences transactions in the last five years than all regional brokerage firms combined.

"For several years, JLL has seen tremendous growth in the life sciences industry and the COVID pandemic has accelerated that growth,” said Peter Belisle, JLL Southwest Market Director. "Greg’s expertise, reputation and passion for helping life sciences companies make him the perfect candidate to help us service and advocate for the specialized needs of the industry. We are confident that he will be a valued team member of our team locally, regionally and nationally."

Prior to joining JLL, Bisconti served as Vice Chairman and National Life Sciences Practice Group Leader at an international commercial real estate firm. He has been a regular top producer throughout his career, finishing his last year in the Top 10 globally for his prior company, and #1 in its San Diego office.

“Our clients are getting more sophisticated in their analysis of where and why they do business,” said Chad Urie, JLL Executive Managing Director. “Life sciences is a global game needing a global game plan. Our JLL Life Sciences team strives to be a consultative partner for clients from early stages of R&D to global headquarters to sophisticated cGMP manufacturing facilities. We are different in that we surround our clients with an unmatched level of data analytics empowering real estate growth decisions including labor analytics, tax incentive procurement, leasing and ownership tax saving structures, workspace optimization and creative financial structures. To execute this level of service we welcome the most skilled and sophisticated partners such as Greg Bisconti.”

Urie went on to say “I competed with Greg for more than 15 years. I am extremely excited to have him on our team and to support his focus on representing life sciences tenants and leveraging JLL’s resources to better serve our clients.”

Bisconti earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Real Estate and Urban Land Use from California State University, Sacramento. He is a member of BIOCOM, BIOCOM Facilities Committee, CONNECT and BOMA.