Professionally qualified with a diploma in Marketing and gaining an MSc in Marketing from Leicester University, Allison forged a career in communications working both client-side and agency-side for organisations in all kinds of business sectors.
National agencies she has worked with include Saatchis, TBWA, Millward Brown and Ogilvy as well as a many regional agencies and has contributed to campaigns for Liberal Democrat’s, Greene King, RAC, Bernard Matthews, amongst others.
As an experienced communications specialist, Allison has been awarded a Fellowship with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), membership of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), and was nominated for a prestigious CIPR Excellence Award for national Outstanding Independent Practitioner in 2017.
Allison won awards for campaigns in the Media Innovator Awards, ARDA, PRide and Eurobest and she was, subsequently, invited to be part of the judging panel for both the CIPR national Excellence and regional PRide awards.
Allison 'Cat' Thomas 