Nancy Dubuc, the previous CEO at A+E Networks and Vice Media who exited Vice in 2023, has resurfaced in an govt position at a enterprise stacked with fellow vacationers.
Ladies’s sports activities model Togethxr (not a typo – it’s pronounced “collectively”) stated Thursday that Dubuc has come aboard as govt chair.
Dubuc is also a board member at Flutter Leisure, Webtoon Leisure, and Warner Music.
Togethxr is understood for creating the favored slogan “everybody watches girls’s sports activities,” which has been seen adorning T-shirts, hoodies and tote luggage over the previous couple years. The corporate was co-founded by professional athletes Alex Morgan, Chloe Kim, Simone Manuel, and Sue Hen and likewise has different media veterans within the combine, amongst them former Huffington Submit exec Betsy Morgan and onetime Disney leisure chief Susan Lyne. The corporate final 12 months employed Westbrook Media alum Tina Tozzi to move improvement.
Morgan and Lyne, who’ve held plenty of govt posts throughout media and tech over time, have segued into extra finance-oriented roles lately. Morgan co-founded Magnet Firms, a non-public equity-backed firm centered on media and commerce, and Lyne is managing accomplice and co-founder of BBG Ventures. Each companies are traders in Togethxr.
One among Togethxr’s new traders is Checker Media, the funding firm based by former Vice Media and New York Submit govt Jesse Angelo.
The corporate introduced an inflow of recent funding funding and stated it has achieved profitability and hit main development and income milestones, together with growing its valuation twofold since its final elevate. Using a wave of fan curiosity throughout the WNBA, girls’s NCAA sports activities like basketball, softball and volleyball, and newer skilled leagues just like the NWSL, Togethxr says it has tripled its income 12 months over 12 months, reaching $6 million in 2024. Together with rising viewership, girls’s sports activities has change into a serious draw for advertisers, driving plenty of well-funded model campaigns, with high-profile moments on the 2024 Paris Olympics punctuating the upswing.
As govt chair, Dubuc, a former athlete herself who rowed crew at Boston College, will advise Togethxr’s crew and inform its model technique whereas liaising with traders and the board of administrators.
“I’ve spent my profession working throughout all corners of the media business, and I’m wanting to dedicate this subsequent section of my skilled life to a development alternative,” she stated in a press release. “By no means one to draw back from a sports activities metaphor, enterprise is a crew sport, and I’m excited to affix this exceptional group of athletes, executives, and traders as we show that investing in girls’s sports activities is nice enterprise.”
