David Allison
Partner
Braun/Allison Inc.
At age 8, David mailed a TV commercial concept, complete with hand-drawn storyboard, to the Mars Bar corporation. For his trouble, he received by return mail a cardboard box filled with Mars Bars, and was thrilled that he could be rewarded for crazy ideas.
He earned a degree in journalism, and has worked in the marketing and advertising business for more than 20 years. He’s planned, written and managed award-winning marketing campaigns, and supervised marketing teams, for car makers, telephone companies, hotels, orchestras, art galleries, technology companies, food products, newspaper publishers, and not-for profit groups of all shapes and sizes.
From 2005 - 2008 he was VP Marketing for Sotheby’s International Realty Canada (www.sothebysrealty.ca) and Blueprint Global Marketing (www.blueprintglobal.com), where he was focused entirely on developing marketing programs around the world for residential and resort real estate projects.
At the same time he and his partner Marcus Braun co-founded Braun/Allison Inc. (www.braunallison.com), a marketing creative services firm specializing in real estate marketing campaigns.
With this varied and broad base of experience, David has developed not just a keen interest in real estate project sales and marketing, but a fascination with how marketing can influence behaviour in all consumer situations.
David is an author, journalist, and public speaker. He collects contemporary art, sits on the acquisitions committee of the Vancouver Art Gallery, and is a member of the Metis Nation.
