Professor Raquel Braun is a media executive, strategic business operator and entrepreneur who has worked with the biggest sports leagues and events in the world, including FIFA, the NFL, Formula 1, MLB, MLS, UEFA, the Premier League, the NWSL, NHL, UFC and NASCAR. In August of 2024, Professor Braun co-founded the boutique strategic consulting firm, Mulier Fortis, which serves as a resource to startups, early, and mid-stage companies, brands, and events, in need of executive leadership and subject-matter expertise, but who may not have the funding or structure to support a full C-suite. Mulier Fortis specializes in building strategies tailored to its client’s organizational needs, developing actionable plans to support their continued growth, and providing the processes and infrastructure needed to achieve their goals.

Professor Braun has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center since January 2024, where she focuses on educating law students on practical drafting, negotiating, and business affairs skills, specifically in the sports, media and entertainment industry.

Prior to launching Mulier Fortis, Professor Braun served as the Chief Business Officer of the startup sports media company, the Women’s Sports Network, the first, and only, 24/7 sports network dedicated exclusively to women’s sports. In this role, she oversaw the network’s strategy & operations, league partnerships, which included relationships with nearly every major women’s professional sports league in the United States, and WSN’s distribution platforms, which included Tier-1 distributors reaching over 100 million U.S. households.

Before joining the Women’s Sports Network, Professor Braun served as a senior Business Development executive at EA SPORTS where she built three new verticals within the business development organization, transforming media partnerships, talent engagements, and Esports initiatives across EA SPORTS’ portfolio of brands. During her time at EA SPORTS, she led negotiations on first-of-their-kind partnerships, such as the award-winning Ted Lasso x FIFA23 integration with Apple and WB, development of the feature film “Fantasy Football” with Nickelodeon, Spring Hill Productions and Paramount+, and the Sports Emmy-nominated 2022 Madden Bowl, which featured the creation of the first Madden NFL channel and audio-only production on iHeartRadio. In this role, Prof. Braun also played an integral part in the development of new short and long-form content concepts, including the integration of Madden NFL into select games from Amazon Prime’s inaugural season of Thursday Night Football and the creation of new Esports show formats, such as FIFA Face-Off featuring Trevor Noah, Becky G, Jason Sudeikis and Nicky Jam. Additionally, Prof. Braun and her team worked on the development of multi-faceted talent partnerships with athletes such as Deion Sanders, Kylian Mbappé, Max Verstappen, and more.

Before EA SPORTS, Professor Braun was Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs at FOX Sports where she managed high-profile talent negotiations, advised on production operations and strategy, and oversaw production-related deal-making for FOX Sports’ premier properties. In this role, she led on-the-ground business and legal affairs efforts Paris and Vancouver for the FIFA Women’s World Cups in 2019 and 2015, respectively, Russia for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Miami for Super Bowl LIV, and Houston & Los Angeles for the 2017 World Series, amongst other events. In prior roles with FOX, Prof. Braun worked on the acquisition of major sports rights for FOX’s global sports networks, the development of original programming, and provided support on the launches and management of various FOX Sports international networks and businesses. While at FOX, Prof. Braun helped launch the “Women of FOX Sports” organization and served as its Chair for two years.

Professor Braun is an alumna of Georgetown Law and the University of Florida. She serves on the Georgetown Law Alumni Board and is the Chair of the University of Florida Sports Management Industry Advisory Board.