VILLANOVA, Pa. – Villanova Athletics, in partnership with national leader Influencer, has launched a comprehensive platform – Wildcat Exchange – to connect student-athletes and businesses for Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) opportunities.
 
The Wildcat Exchange, part of the "NIL @ Villanova" program, is free of cost to both Villanova student-athletes and commercial businesses and provides a customized portal for communicating with student-athletes and fulfilling NIL transactions.
 
Through the Wildcat Exchange, a business can access a database and connect directly with a Villanova student-athlete. Once an NIL agreement is reached, a reporting form consistent with Pennsylvania law and Villanova's Name, Image and Likeness Policy is created and forwarded to Villanova University Athletics Compliance.
 
Interested businesses or individuals can register now with the Wildcat Exchange at app.villanova.com/nil.
 
Wildcat Exchange also includes a payment processing tool to securely pay student-athletes and create a 1099 form that lives in the student-athlete's Influencer app for more efficient tax reporting. The platform will continue to provide education on NIL issues, including financial literacy and brand building, while providing market research and tracking social media growth and engagement.
 
About Villanova Athletics
Villanova University has a long and storied athletics history defined by excellence both in competition and in the classroom.  The Villanova Athletics Department is a community of student-athletes, coaches and staff whose primary focus is to achieve academic excellence, while striving to produce teams and individuals committed to athletic competition and outstanding performance.  Villanova Athletics sponsors 24 varsity sports, which together include more than 550 student-athletes.  Villanova is a member of the BIG EAST Conference, CAA Football, Colonial Athletic Association (Rowing) and Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (Water Polo).
 
About Influencer
Influencer, a Teamworks product, is the leading athlete brand-building and NIL business management app for elite athletic organizations. The Influencer athlete app educates collegiate student-athletes, coaches and staff for the NIL era in a safe and compliant environment, all powered by best-in-class content delivery for student-athletes to access and share content to their social media channels. Influencer works with more than 250 collegiate and professional sports organizations.

Impactful new features like the INFLCR Local & Global Exchange, provide local and national companies with the ability to find, communicate, pay and report NIL transactions with collegiate student-athletes, maximizing their NIL earning potential with streamlined reporting for their institution and their personal tax returns.

Visit www.inflcr.com for more information.

Influencer + Local Exchange
Influencer provides proven technology that offers athletics departments a place to send any business, collective, or individual interested in starting an NIL conversation with student-athletes and allows businesses to access a school-specific directory to filter and contact specific student-athletes by team, sport and many other options, including automated NIL transaction compliance and tax reporting. For student-athletes, all NIL business conversations can live in their existing Influencer account with automated payments and streamlined reporting for tax purposes.