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Jeff was born and raised in Moline, Illinois, by a single mother. A three sport athlete much of his childhood, Jeff decided to forgo basketball and soccer to focus on baseball as he got into his last years of high school. The decision paid off as Jeff earned second team all state honors his senior year, which yielded a scholarship to play baseball at the University of Illinois. He played his first two years at U of I, then turned his attention to finishing his B.S. In Psychology.
Shortly after graduation, Jeff started his career in clothing business when he was hired and soon after, managed three different stores for the Men's retailer, Bachrach. Although, Jeff earned several managerial awards during his 18 months with the company, he felt there was more out there in the clothing world for him. So, in February of 2001, Jeff interviewed with Tom James of Chicago, large custom clothier focusing of high-end clothing and personalized service. He was hired on the spot to help build their downtown Chicago office. Jeff quickly rose in the sales and leadership ranks. Within 3 years, he had achieved 'Presidents Club' status for sales that put him in the top 30% of all salespeople at the time. The following year he earned the 'Presidents Cabinet' level which is reserved for the Top 15% of sales. He maintained that level until he parted ways with the company in August 2009. In addition to being a top sales producer, Jeff assisted in the training of several new team members from 2002 - 2009. Probably Jeff's greatest honor and achievement while at Tom James came in 2005. He was asked by the President of the company to spearhead the entire Ladies Custom Division. For the following 3 years, Jeff traveled to various cities and offices to hold training sessions with the sales people in those cities, as well as worked directly with the head of manufacturing to overhaul the custom women's styles and patterns. In addition, Jeff held numerous training seminars to the over 500 sales people at the company's annual national meetings. In August of 2009, Jeff parted ways with Tom James of Chicago to launch Geoff Alain LLC. At the same time, he moved to Miami, Florida to begin building the foundation of Geoff Alain. The first three years were rough and took longer than Jeff expected to plant his feet solidly into South Florida's clothing landscape. After several years of hard work and diligence, Geoff Alain turned the corner in 2010. That year, the company had a substantial 42% growth in sales and opened many key doors to the future of Geoff Alain. Jeff, and Geoff Alain has not looked back since - posting 21 - 36% growth in each of the subsequent years. Today, Geoff Alain is an international company that serves over 250 clients from Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, as well as clients in Chicago, Washington DC, New York City, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Dallas, Columbus, and parts of Canada. Jeff's keen sense of coordination and style has created a solid reputation that has led him throughout the US and Canada. |
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Please Welcome Our Newest Haberdasher, Danielle!! |
We are extremely fortunate and excited to have Danielle join the Geoff Alain team. At every level of academics, athletics and business, Ms. Pratt has had tremendous accomplishments and successes.
Danielle is a product of Fort Lauderdale. While attending South Broward High School, she earned several academic honors. On the basketball court, she captained her team to the State Finals. Her hard work, athleticism, and competitiveness earned her a scholarship to Nova Southeastern University (NSU).
At NSU, Danielle was a 4 year starter, 2-time team captain, and the motivation behind the Sharks tremendous four year run where the team made it to the Elite 8 three times and battled in the Final Four once. Prior to these four years, the NSU Women's basketball program had never seen this level of success. During her career, Danielle amassed numerous honors, recognitions, and awards including among others, All-American, Defensive Player of the Year and 3 All Region Nominations. She also is in the Top 5 in NSU history is every statistical category, and still stands as the school's All-Time Leader in Points, Games Played, Games Started, and 3 Pointers Made. Off the court, Danielle was just as accomplished. She earned her Bachelors, as well as her Master's Degree during her 4 years at NSU, all while maintaining a 4.3 GPA. Danielle served on the NSU Athletic Advisory Committee, President's 64 Ambassador Board, is a Member of Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity, as well as numerous others social and academic organizations.
After her illustrious playing career at NSU had finished, Danielle took a year off to recover from knee surgery. Once recovered, she had the opportunity to accomplish her life-long dream of playing Professional Basketball in Spain. She signed to play for a Spanish Professional Team in Castellon, Spain. During her one season with the team, she led the team to an undefeated record, and averaged 26.5 points per game and an amazing 10.5 rebounds per game, from her shooting guard position.
Despite tremendous success in her lone year professionally in Spain, Danielle decided to move on to the next phase of her life. Since 2015, Ms. Pratt has been working with Geoff Alain in an administrative capacity, while learning the business. She has an understanding of the importance of appearance, a keen eye for coordinating outfits for clients, and an unsurpassed work ethic. With these characteristics, along with her charisma and people skills, Danielle shifted over to the Customer Relationship side of Geoff Alain in June 2017.
We, at Geoff Alain, are tremendously excited about Danielle's new role with the company. Her creativity, initiative, and design ideas have already helped increase the company's social media presence, online traffic, as well as increased digital efficiency. We know that based on her character, work ethic, and desire to succeed, that Ms. Pratt will be an asset to helping Geoff Alain grow to the #1 Custom Clothing Company in South Florida.
Danielle is a product of Fort Lauderdale. While attending South Broward High School, she earned several academic honors. On the basketball court, she captained her team to the State Finals. Her hard work, athleticism, and competitiveness earned her a scholarship to Nova Southeastern University (NSU).
At NSU, Danielle was a 4 year starter, 2-time team captain, and the motivation behind the Sharks tremendous four year run where the team made it to the Elite 8 three times and battled in the Final Four once. Prior to these four years, the NSU Women's basketball program had never seen this level of success. During her career, Danielle amassed numerous honors, recognitions, and awards including among others, All-American, Defensive Player of the Year and 3 All Region Nominations. She also is in the Top 5 in NSU history is every statistical category, and still stands as the school's All-Time Leader in Points, Games Played, Games Started, and 3 Pointers Made. Off the court, Danielle was just as accomplished. She earned her Bachelors, as well as her Master's Degree during her 4 years at NSU, all while maintaining a 4.3 GPA. Danielle served on the NSU Athletic Advisory Committee, President's 64 Ambassador Board, is a Member of Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity, as well as numerous others social and academic organizations.
After her illustrious playing career at NSU had finished, Danielle took a year off to recover from knee surgery. Once recovered, she had the opportunity to accomplish her life-long dream of playing Professional Basketball in Spain. She signed to play for a Spanish Professional Team in Castellon, Spain. During her one season with the team, she led the team to an undefeated record, and averaged 26.5 points per game and an amazing 10.5 rebounds per game, from her shooting guard position.
Despite tremendous success in her lone year professionally in Spain, Danielle decided to move on to the next phase of her life. Since 2015, Ms. Pratt has been working with Geoff Alain in an administrative capacity, while learning the business. She has an understanding of the importance of appearance, a keen eye for coordinating outfits for clients, and an unsurpassed work ethic. With these characteristics, along with her charisma and people skills, Danielle shifted over to the Customer Relationship side of Geoff Alain in June 2017.
We, at Geoff Alain, are tremendously excited about Danielle's new role with the company. Her creativity, initiative, and design ideas have already helped increase the company's social media presence, online traffic, as well as increased digital efficiency. We know that based on her character, work ethic, and desire to succeed, that Ms. Pratt will be an asset to helping Geoff Alain grow to the #1 Custom Clothing Company in South Florida.