Jack Gillis was born in downtown Detroit. He is the youngest of ten siblings. His parents are Polish, Scottish-Canadian and Catholic. They treated his older sisters as if they were their moms.
A love for craftsmanship, design, and baseball brings music legend Jack White and design entrepreneur Ben Jenkins together. In 2016, Jack White became an investor in Ben Jenkins's sporting goods brand, Warstic. Today the company does so much more than manufacture artisan baseball bats.