Why Puerto Rico | 2018 Retail Market Report
Luis Blanes
Senior Vice President, Engineering Services (ES)
Mr. Blanes is the Director of Operations for Engineering Services for JLL in Latin America. Leading a
team composed of regional and national engineers in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico, Central and
South America, his responsibilities are to provide technical support, consulting services, due
diligence, program management, and training, to our IFM business, as well as to lead the Mobile
and Static Engineering lines of services for our different clients. His group is dedicated in
developing, implementing, monitoring, and improving our engineering best practices in Critical
Environment Management (CEM), ESS, Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S), and the
preventive maintenance practice. Mr. Blanes and his team are also the Quality Assurance auditors
for the Region, and part of the transition team for all new clients in Latin America.
Victor Espino
National Director, Corporate Solutions
Mr. Espino is an Integrated Facility Management (IFM) Lead for Jones Lang LaSalle’s Corporate
Solutions group currently overseeing financial and operating performance as well as providing
support for the Accounts in the Northern Cone Countries (NCC). He has ten plus years of relevant
experience including capital investment projects, strategic planning, and facilities management
for retail and corporate portfolios. During this time, Mr. Espino has demonstrated broad
technical skills that are an asset for the company and have included him in the group of Subject
Matter Experts (SME) for IFM and Building Operations Management. Some of the responsibilities
he excelled in are: critical environment management; critical equipment maintenance and
energy management; reliability plan management and facilities assessment; facilities
management; service desk coordination and process improvement.
Luis Torres Acosta
Senior Vice President, Integrated Facility Management (IFM)
As the leader of Jones Lang LaSalle’s IFM practice, Luis Torres-Acosta is part of the Executive
Team responsible of the performance and quality assurance of projects and relations with
customers through the development of solutions for the award of contracts and the
implementation of services in addition to be in charge of the Commercial and Industrial
Integrated Facility Management (IFM) for Puerto Rico and Latin America. His responsibilities at
the regional level include the management of clients relationship, facilities and engineering
activities including, but not limited to, Pharmaceuticals, BioPharma, Commercial, Call-Center
and Medical Device in the USA, Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil and other countries of the North and
South Cones.
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