Bloomingdale Breakfast Club - Surviving United Flight 232: A Fresh Perspective

  Jeff Miller of Divine Signs & Graphics

Jeff Miller, married (Michele), and the father of four children, and grandfather of five, is the Owner of Divine Signs and Graphics, a Full Service Sign and Digital Graphics Shop in Schaumburg, IL. Jeff and his family live in Schaumburg, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago. Jeff is a member of the Schaumburg-Hoffman Estates Rotary Club, Board of Directors for the Schaumburg Business Association, Past Board of Directors for Campenelli YMCA, Board of Directors of the Schaumburg Park Foundation, and attends church at Living Hope Church, Elk Grove Village, IL, where he is actively involved in various groups and ministries.

Prior to Jeff and Michele making their move into entrepreneurship, Jeff had 19 years of national and global sales and sales management experience in the wireless data and computer industries. Jeff realized significant results in his career, developing high performance sales teams, distribution channels, global/ national accounts and wireless data carrier relationships across the world. His most recent assignment was with Sierra Wireless, where he was Vice President of Worldwide Business Development. Jeff spent over nine years at Motorola, where he held senior sales management roles in Motorola’s wireless data businesses. Jeff attended Elmhurst College where he earned a B.Sc in Marketing and Psychology.

On July 19th, 1989 Jeff was onboard United Airline’s flight 232, a DC-10, with 296 people when it's rear engine exploded which forced the plane to make an emergency landing in Sioux City, IA. The plane cartwheeled, broke into pieces, and burst into flames. 184 lived, 112 lost their lives. Jeff unbuckled from his seat and walked away from the burning wreckage without a scratch; without a smudge.

Jeff has shared his life changing experience with thousands of men, women and students across the country in settings such as Chamber of Commerce Events, Christian Business Men Committees, Full Gospel Businessmen, Universities, Lions Clubs, Rotary Clubs, National Prayer Breakfasts /Luncheons, and has been the Key Note Speaker at corporate gatherings. Jeff has also appeared on Christian Television, National Radio programs and in LIFE magazine