Alyson Ramsey Johnson - CEO at Gilly Group, Co-Founder of White Tee Partners

As the President and CEO of Gilly Group, Alyson focuses on sports marketing, event production, tournament management, and sponsorship activation and has worked with clients including various private golf clubs, across all of golf’s governing bodies, and with various golf brands, talent, and properties. Alyson is also the host of a podcast that focuses on the business of golf.

Johnson launched White Tee Partners as a founding partner with LeslieAnne Wade in 2020, a strategic communications firm that focuses on PR, crisis communications and social media for people, properties, brands and events in the golf space.

Prior to launching Gilly Group in September 2015, Johnson spent eight years as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Wyndham Worldwide, 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 Worldwide in 2007, Johnson held a variety of sales, marketing and communications positions with various golf organizations, including the New Jersey State Golf Association, the 2005 PGA Championship at Baltusrol, Hamilton Farm Golf Club, the HSBC Women’s World Match Play event, and The Academy of Golf at Royce Brook.

In addition, Alyson has served on the Board for both the NJ Golf Foundation for the NJ Section of the PGA of America (NJPGA) and the American Junior Golf Association Foundation (AJGA). She resides in New Jersey with her three children.