Showing posts with label David Murphy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Murphy. Show all posts

Monday 3 August 2015

Former Premier League Footballer David Murphy joins skignz

We are delighted to say that David Murphy has now joined skignz as our 'Head of Sports Partnerships'.

The former Premier League Professional Footballer with Middlesbrough, Hibernian, Motherwell and England Under 19, recently retired from the professional game through a serious knee injury in 2014. 

Still in his early thirties, David is looking forward to the next stage of his life with his wife and young family after relocating back up to the Teesside area. 

With a number of other business interests outside of football. He is staying involved in the game and working as part of MFC Manager Aitor Karanka's back room team at Middlesbrough, scouting players and providing match analysis. Going full circle in his career and returning to the club where he joined their academy as a schoolboy.

Over the last 6-12 months David has been informally working with the skignz team, helping provide insight into the world of professional sport and where he felt skignz could become involved. This relationship has now been firmed up with David joining us as 'Head of Sports Partnerships'.




Si Brown (skignz Co-Founder & CMO) said:
"In this role David will be engaging with his extensive network of contacts not only in Football but also in the wider world of professional sports to see where 'skignz may fit'. 


Some areas of consideration are obvious especially around the 'supporters experience'. However by going behind the scenes at professional clubs, can the skignz tech help enhance performance, provide data and information that currently is not being captured or even present current information in a more visual way?"

One of the very few players to win silverware in both England and Scotland, David won the league cup in both countries.

David on skignz:


David on Joining skignz:

For more information on David's, professional career, please take a look at this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Murphy_(footballer) or see below a gallary of images of him during his playing days.

If you work in the world of professional sports. Especially around marketing, brand, advertising, experience, data and analytics, then please feel free to contact David on either +44 (0) 845 058 0519 or email in the first instance to info@skignz.com