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Kay Allison CEO and Founder The Energy Infuser, Inc. |
Kay is Founder and President of The Energy Infuser, Inc. As such, she is powered by the electricity of consumer insight igniting the explosive power of innovation. The result has been a highly successful, bustling, insight-and-idea enterprise with a feel and provenance all its own. Kay-in person and in spirit-is part of every single project. Marketing people from major consumer-product and service companies are routinely part of this scene and very much part of the action. Also, Kay has authored Secrets from the Innovation Room: How to Create High Voltage Ideas that Make Money, Win Business and Outwit the Competition.
Kay also enjoys being involved in civic activity and serves on the Visibility Committee of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, a group that endeavors to increase the museum's capacity to enhance the performance of Chicago students in math and science. She was also named to the board of directors of the Off the Street Club, Chicago's oldest boys and girls club.
A cellist, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the Chicago Musical College at Roosevelt University in Chicago in 1981 and earned an Master of Arts in Advertising from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1982.