Jason Shaw

Jason Shaw was born into a prominent family in Chicago, his father being the CEO of Jefferies & Company, Inc., a global investment bank and securities firm. Good-looking and athletic, Shaw graduated from the University of Chicago in 1995, playing for the basketball team and earning a degree in history. He had planned to go into business. However, his college roommate, who was from South Beach, Florida, knew some people in the modeling business and told Jason that he had the looks and presence to make big money in the business. So he was able to attend a ProScout event held in Chicago and was immediately selected by the talent scouts who attended. He quickly was signed by the Wilhelmina Models agency and soon got an assignment with Abercrombie & Fitch, which is coveted among male models. That quickly lead to other jobs which paid well and garnered him media exposure. His big break came in 1998, when he was signed to be the lead spokesman for the company owned and named after its founder