Born and raised in New York, Jill Siegel moved to the Buckhead community of Atlanta in 1993. A graduate of the Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, with a degree in Marketing, Jill spent her first 10 years working in the men's fashion industry for various companies and prestigious designers such as GFT (Armani distributor), ENK Productions, Gant Shirts, Ron Chereskin, and Jeffrey Banks.