77. Nancy Hensley: Founding Member at Mercury 13

About this episode

Nancy Hensley discusses the ambitions and strategies of Mercury 13 in women's football.

This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Nancy Hensley, Founding Member at Mercury 13 (a multi-club ownership group focused on acquiring controlling stakes in professional women's football) and former Chief Marketing and Product Officer at Stats Perform. In this exclusive, Paul & Nancy discuss Mercury 13's ambition and strategies, the benefits and challenges of multi-club ownership models, the growth and future of women's football, how data can transform women's football and the lack of data in it, and so much more. - - - - - - - What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes. Please remember to support the pod with a follow & a 5 star review. Today's episode is sponsored by Prorizon.

People in this episode

Host: Paul

Guest: Nancy Hensley

Topics covered

• women's football
• multi-club ownership
• data in sports
• football business
• growth of women's sports

Keywords

• Mercury 13
• women's football
• multi-club ownership
• data transformation
• football business

Sponsors

Prorizon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mercury 13, Stats Perform

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