BIO

As the President and Chief Executive Officer of Gilly Group, Alyson focuses on marketing strategy, business development, sports marketing and sponsorship activation. 

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Prior to launching the agency in late 2015, Alyson served as Senior Vice President of marketing and communications for Wyndham Worldwide for eight years, where she oversaw internal and external communications and media relations, branding, marketing, philanthropy and sports marketing, as well as the Wyndham Championship on the PGA TOUR.

 

Prior to joining Wyndham in 2007, Johnson held a variety of sales, marketing and communication positions with various golf organizations including the New Jersey State Golf Association, PGA Championship, Hamilton Farm Golf Club and the HSBC Women’s World Match Play event as well as The Academy of Golf at Royce Brook.

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Alyson has a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and a master’s in kinesiology from Temple University. She has served on the Corporate Advisory Board for the Master of Arts program in Corporate & Organizational Communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University, the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Foundation Board, and the Board of Directors for the NJ PGA Section’s “NJ Golf Foundation”.  She currently resides in New Jersey with her three children.