ANNE SMYTH

 

Anne Smyth is a sponsorship specialist at Electric Ireland in Belfast and has responsibility for activating the Northern Ireland Women’s team and women’s football sponsorships with the Irish FA.

The Game Changers Programme which is spreading the word across the province was an overall winner at last year’s European Sponsorship awards and then the Senior team qualified for next Summer’s European Championship Finals in England, lifting the visibility of Smyth’s work to another level again.

She has worked with Electric Ireland for the past four years and has previously served as an Independent Director of Swim Ulster.

Smyth started her career in sport as Communications Executive with Ulster Rugby and than as a Communications Officer at the Sports Institute in Northern Ireland, during which time she also spent time working with the British Olympic Association as part of the London 2012 infrastructure.

 

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This is the ninth edition of our Sport for Business listing of 50 Women of Influence in Irish Sport.

We are proud to do so this year with a new partner in AIG, an organisation that have pledged their commitment to equality in their partnerships with Gaelic Games, Tennis, Golf and more, for whom “Effort is Equal” and with whom we have ambitious plans to extend the reach of this annual celebration of the Women who are making a difference.

They are drawn as before from the worlds of leadership, partnership, storytelling and performance.

We began this journey in 2013 when challenged that we would never be able to produce a list of twenty Influential Women in Irish Sport. The 20 stretched to 30, then 40 and 50 and it still does not do justice to the talent that is out there.

This year once more, to keep things fresh we will introduce at least 30 per cent of fresh names from last year. That will be the hardest part to have some names replaced but if it was too easy it would be of less value.

The list we will continue to build over the coming weeks is a snapshot of those women who are making a mark on how sport is played, consumed, grown and delivered.

They are part of making the role of women in sport unexceptional by being exceptional in what they do.

 

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