Gillies is a leading representative of both UNIFI and Ameritas Investment Corp., where he serves as the Immediate Past Chair of the Field Advisory Cabinet. He is an honor graduate of Tulane University (MBA) and of the University of New Orleans (BA).
Gillies is also Past-President of NAIFA-Greater New Orleans, where he was honored as Advisor of the Year for 1998, and of NAIFA-Louisiana, where he reveived the 2003 President’s Award and the 2007 Arthur Abramson Member of the Year Award.