Jill Sharif serves as Vice President, National Business Development for the Boston National Commercial Services (NCS) operation where she is consistently recognized companywide as one of the highest performing members of the sales teams for commercial real estate transactions in the country. Here, and in her former role at another major underwriter, she has worked on numerous complex single and multi-site transactions throughout the country for all asset classes for over 20 years.
A leading voice in the title insurance industry, Jill has participated on many industry panels and has spoken at several university classrooms and career events, clarifying and expanding on title insurance. In addition to title insurance, she is one of the leading experts on the application of UCC Insurance, Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, and title insurance for real estate mezzanine transactions. Jill has also provided numerous CLE presentations to companies that want a detailed look at UCC and other commercial transactions and co-authored “Mitigating the Risk of a Loan Portfolio Acquisition with UCC Insurance" published in The Practical Real Estate Lawyer.
Jill is currently the 2025 Immediate Past President of RE&FA, an association formed to bring together the best people, knowledge, and experience to provide informative programs and networking opportunities for commercial real estate and finance professionals throughout the Greater Boston area with over 800+ members. In addition to her role with RE&FA, Jill is also a member of the CREW Network Global Board of Directors where she will serve in 2026 and 2027.
Prior to this, she served as the president of CREW Boston in 2019-2020, one of the largest CREW Network chapters. During her time as president, Jill refocused and led the organization through the height of the pandemic and served as the co-chair of CREW Boston’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Task Force and a member of The CRE Collaborative, since its inception in 2019.
In April 2024 she was honored with the CREW Boston Leadership Award, which recognizes a member who has inspired, motivated, and supported CREW Boston year after year and contributed her time, energy, and talents in leadership roles within the Greater Boston real estate community. In December 2024 and December 2025, Jill was recognized as one of The Top 50 Women Leaders in Boston by Women We Admire. In 2021, The Boston Real Estate Times honored Jill as one of 10 Outstanding Women Leaders in Boston commercial real estate. Also in 2021, she was recognized by the GlobeSt.com Women of Influence Awards as a Diversity Champion for her groundbreaking work with CREW Boston on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. In 2018, Jill was among the team honored with the CREW Boston Networking Award for her contributions to the One Dalton project in Boston.
She was named the 80th CREW Visionary in 2020, a recognition for charitable giving to advance the careers of women in commercial real estate and added her first diamond in 2025. She is also a member of ICSC, NAIOP (Gavel Member), and ULI (member of the URC Product Council).
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Earning the client's business is only the first step. To me, success is measured by partnering with the client through meaningful communication, providing effective solutions in a timely manner, and then meeting or far exceeding expectations.❞
Jill is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and a member of the UConn Boston Leadership Committee. This group is tasked with increasing UConn’s visibility by building stronger networks among UConn alumni, supporting more jobs for UConn students in the Boston area, supporting philanthropy, and promoting corporate sponsorships and research. She has been a member of the Heading Home Housewarming Committee for the past 4 years. In 2025, teams of Boston leaders set out again to raise funds for Heading Home. As a result, 200+ industry leaders raised over $2 million to help families exit homelessness. Jill is on the Wonder Women team (captains Leslie Cohen (The Davis Companies) & Kristin Blount (Colliers)), which raised the 2nd highest amount for the campaign.
Jill resides in Sudbury, Massachusetts with her husband and twin daughters. In her spare time, she enjoys golf, tennis and pickleball!