EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Talisman Collection is pleased to announce the appointment of Jill O’Neill as Vice President, Sales & Management for the company’s retail locations and ecommerce division overseeing sales, training and human capital.
A jewelry industry veteran, O’Neill is an expert on luxury goods and fine jewelry. Formerly with Tiffany & Co., O’Neill is known nationally for having been chosen from thousands of candidates to open the Roseville, CA Tiffany & Co. location after training at the Tiffany & Co. NYC Fifth Avenue corporate headquarters and East Coast manufacturing centers.
An award-winning sales and management professional, Jill O’Neill grew professionally through the ranks at MCI straight from college with more than three decades of growth in upwardly mobile positions of high responsibility including product management, technical design and deployment, strategic business planning, oversight of customer service and customer experience and human resources.
“Jewelry has been a lifelong passion of mine. This opportunity to oversee the sales and management of Talisman Collection aligns my personal interests with my professional experience toward mutually extraordinary potential benefit,” says O’Neill. “I look forward to engaging customers and staff locally as well as globally in our beautiful corporate flagship store in El Dorado Hills, CA while assisting in the expansion of Talisman Collection stores into additional California locations farther south in CA,” O’Neill continues.
A native of California’s Bay Area, Jill is a graduate of California State University with a BA in Psychology, minoring in Business Administration. She and her husband have made El Dorado Hills, CA their home for more than a decade with their three children, two of whom attend college and one who is a senior at Oak Ridge High School. Jill O’Neill is an animal lover whose interests include outdoor activities and culinary arts.
About Talisman Collection: Talisman Collection is a full-service fine jewelry store chain with a GIA gemologist, master appraiser and master bench jeweler. The brick and mortar retail store headquarters in El Dorado Hills, CA features over 50 global fine jewelry designer and couture brands in addition to several new artist jewelry and designer brands. Talisman Collection stores each have a fully merchandised men’s department that includes luxury timepieces, leather goods and gadgets. A tech and gemology play area for children in a separate area of the store, which features gemstones, microscopes and iPads, transforms to a live performance space within the store. Talisman Collection décor features massive blown glass sun and sky over the front half of the store, an airplane skirmish with hot air balloons high above the gentlemen’s lounge, a “river” running through the entire store, wrought iron trees, green plant walls and other elements bringing a surreal depiction of nature into the store décor. Talisman Collection’s website is www.talismancollection.com.
