Marketing/Innovation Director
Food & nutrition
East Coast Bakehouse
Ireland
Alison is co-founder and Marketing/Innovation Director of East Coast Bakehouse, Ireland’s only large scale biscuit manufacturing business based in Drogheda. The new €15m investment backed by Enterprise Ireland is ready for launch Autumn 2016. As a new Dragon investor in the 2016 series of RTE ‘s Dragons’ Den, Alison has invested in a number of new Irish businesses, and is working closely with these entrepreneures to drive growth in their new enterprises. Alison is also co-founder and Managing Director of ‘The Company of Food’, a specialist food investment business with shareholdings held in Valeo Food Group(Irelands’s largest ambient food group), Elivar (sports nutrition), Zaragoza Restaurant, Bizimply, and a number of other private and public food companies.
Food sciences