Background
Sisk was born in New York and raised in the New York City Metropolitan Area.
Sisk was born in New York and raised in the New York City Metropolitan Area.
University of Tennessee.
Sisk also served as the executive vice president of Jewelry Television until his death in 2013. He began working in the jewelry industry as an apprentice as a teenager. Sisk, who spoke six languages fluently, was a graduate gemologist accredited through studies at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).
He traveled to approximately forty countries during his career.
Kouns was a jewelry expert, while Hall had spent his career in the television industry. The new home shopping channel broadcast from a small studio in Greeneville, Tennessee, utilizing just one television camera.
Eventually, Sisk and his partners moved to a larger, permanent television studio in Knoxville as business and viewers increased. Jewelry Television, which calls itself the largest retailer of loose gemstones in the United States, employed more than 1,200 people by the time of Sisk"s death.
Sisk"s best known book, Guide to Gems & Jewelry, has sold more than 15,000 copies, resulting in a second edition
The magazine called Sisk the forth most influential person in its "Gems and gemology" sublist. Within the Knoxville area, Sisk served as a former President of the Knoxville Opera Company and held a seat on the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. Sisk died in his sleep at his home in Farragut, Tennessee, on January 13, 2013, at the age of 59.
He was buried in Concord Masonic Cemetery in Concord, Tennessee.
He earned a bachelor"s degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he was a member of the Pride of the Southland Band as a student. He was a national committee member for the Gemstone Industry and Laboratory Conference and a member of the International Colored Gemstone Association.