{"id":28223,"date":"2024-09-24T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=28223"},"modified":"2024-09-26T13:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T13:07:55","slug":"podcast-convergence-diane-gotua-senior-vice-president-and-global-head-of-strategy-at-fanatics","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/podcasts\/podcast-convergence-diane-gotua-senior-vice-president-and-global-head-of-strategy-at-fanatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast &#8211; Convergence: Diane Gotua, Former Senior Vice President and Global Head of Strategy at Fanatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2167310374-scaled.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                24 Sep 2024                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/podcasts\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Podcasts<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">Podcast &#8211; 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It\u2019s a show about strategy, growth, and fitting new products to meet audience demand.<\/p>\n<p>In this series we\u2019ll be looking at sports media, betting, gamification, collectibles, merchandising and more \u2013 and it\u2019s being co-hosted by me, James Emmett from Leaders, and Sam Sadi, the CEO of LiveScore, the football scores app-come-betting company that has supercharged its own growth off the back of a converged offering.<\/p>\n<p>Diane Gotua, a strategic business leader with nearly two decades of global leadership experience in strategy, operations and corporate development within sports and finance, is our guest for episode three. 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