Geri Duncan Jones - Cosmoprof North America
Geri Duncan Jones - Cosmoprof North America
Geri Duncan Jones - Cosmoprof North America
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<strong>Geri</strong> <strong>Duncan</strong> <strong>Jones</strong><br />
Executive Director<br />
<strong>America</strong>n Health and Beauty Aids Institute<br />
When <strong>Geri</strong> <strong>Duncan</strong> <strong>Jones</strong> was elected Executive Director of the<br />
<strong>America</strong>n Health and Beauty Aids Institute in 1988, the<br />
skepticism of this male dominated industry was voiced in trade<br />
magazine headlines, “Can She Do It?” Against all odds, she has<br />
done it.<br />
Her interaction with 11 of the nation’s leading ethnic hair care<br />
manufacturers, major retailers, trade and business publications<br />
and other giants of the industry has gained her the respect of this<br />
very diverse industry.<br />
Working her way through the ranks, she brings a special<br />
perspective of both the industry and the markets it serves.<br />
During her tenure, her aggressive, energetic business acumen<br />
was demonstrated by organizing AHBAI’s most successful<br />
conferences, “The Ethnic Multi-Cultural HBC Conference”. One of<br />
her major accomplishments is the organization of the Proud Lady<br />
Beauty Show- Chicago, which attracts thousands of beauty and<br />
barber professionals and beauty & barber school students<br />
throughout the U.S., England, Canada, South Africa, and the<br />
West Indies.<br />
She has also enhanced the status of the association as the<br />
world’s leading authority on the ethnic HBC category.<br />
She earned a bachelors degree in Journalism in 1979 and has<br />
completed courses toward a master’s degree in business<br />
administration. She is a member of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority,<br />
Zeta Zeta Chapter and the Administrator for St. Titus One<br />
Missionary Baptist Church.<br />
She has been honored by industry organizations as exemplifying<br />
the “Proud Lady” image and received numerous awards including
eing recognized as one of Dollars & Sense Magazine’s Top 100<br />
Black Women, and Black Enterprise Magazine’s Top 25 Black<br />
Women of 1994, National Beauty Culturists League Legacy Award<br />
(1997) and Hall of Fame Induction (1999), and Salon Sense<br />
Magazine’s Black Women Power Brokers (2004-2007).<br />
In addition to being a devoted wife and mother, she is also active<br />
in community and religious affairs and well respected by her<br />
peers.
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