Alison Copus

Alison Copus is a marketing professional with an extensive international career. She now lives in Swansea. After an early career with Ogilvy and Mather and American Express she became Marketing Director of Virgin Atlantic, a post she held for 12 years. She went on to head Virgin Management’s Entrepreneurs Unite, setting up the Branson School for Entrepreneurship to provide business skills for disadvantaged young people. This was followed by five years as Vice President Marketing for TripAdvisor, tasked with expanding the brand outside the US to make it the world’s largest travel website. She has been a Board Member of the Institute of Welsh Affairs since 2018 and was part of the Leadership Team at Wales Millennium Centre between 2017 and 2021.