Gráinne Barry is Senior Vice President of Operations and the Women’s Global lead for Stats Perform, the US giant in the world of sports data. She established the European Headquarters for the company in Limerick in 2018.

With the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the Men’s Rugby World Cup driving engagement through data like never before she is one of the leading global players in the sector.

Her career has been forged in the world of technology and she cut her teeth in online dating before a passion for health and sports technology led her to the positions she holds today.

A member of the inaugural Enterprise Ireland Female Entrepreneur Program, ‘Going for Growth’. Has also served as a mentor to assist new female entrepreneurs in a European Commission project, mentoring start-up technology companies, and participated in the inaugural Irish WXN Top 25 Wisdom Program.

She co-founded SportsTech Ireland with Emily Webb in 2017 and is a regular speaker in the sports tech environment around the world.

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See who else has been included so far on the list for 2023

This is the 11th edition of our Sport for Business listing of 50 Women of Influence in Irish Sport.

Read more about the list and nominate who you think should be a part of it in 2023.

We are proud to publish the list in partnership with AIG, an organisation that has pledged its commitment to equality in its 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.

This year’s list will be 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 step up again, raising the number of new entrants to at least 40 percent of fresh names from last year.

It 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 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.