Julie Uhrman
Co-founder and President
Angel City Football Club (ACFC)
Julie Uhrman is the President and Co-Founder of Angel City Football Club (ACFC), Los Angeles' professional women's soccer team that debuted in 2022 in the National Women's Soccer League.
ACFC is one of the world's only majority female-founded and run professional sports teams and was recently named the world’s most valuable women’s sports team. Uhrman founded ACFC with Academy Award-winning actress and activist Natalie Portman, and technology venture capitalist Kara Nortman.
She was named a member of the 2023 Sports Business Journal (SBJ) Game Changer class. She was listed as one of the Ten Influencers of 2023 by SportsPro Media, one of the Most Influential People in Sports Business 2022 by the SBJ, and a member of Adweek's 2021 and 2020 Most Powerful Women In Sports. Most recently, Angel City Football Club was honored by ESPN as the Humanitarian Team of the Year at the 2024 ESPY Awards, in recognition of the club’s incredible community impact work. In May of 2023, Angel City Football Club was named Sports Team of the Year by SBJ and was the first women's team ever to win the category.
Julie is active in the Los Angeles sports and technology communities. She is a board member of the LA Sports and Entertainment Council, The Rose Bowl Institute, and the LA Sports Council, and an active executive in the LA Chapter of WISE (Women in Sports and Events), where she was recognized as a 2022 Women of Inspiration Honoree. She is also part of the DraftKings' All-Star Network as an Advisor to Drive by DraftKings and earned her FIFA Diploma in Club Management in 2024.
Before ACFC, Uhrman served as the EVP and General Manager of OTT Ventures at Lionsgate, Head of Platform Business Development at Jaunt, a virtual reality content startup, and founder of OUYA, a pioneering Android-based game console.
ACFC is one of the world's only majority female-founded and run professional sports teams and was recently named the world’s most valuable women’s sports team. Uhrman founded ACFC with Academy Award-winning actress and activist Natalie Portman, and technology venture capitalist Kara Nortman.
She was named a member of the 2023 Sports Business Journal (SBJ) Game Changer class. She was listed as one of the Ten Influencers of 2023 by SportsPro Media, one of the Most Influential People in Sports Business 2022 by the SBJ, and a member of Adweek's 2021 and 2020 Most Powerful Women In Sports. Most recently, Angel City Football Club was honored by ESPN as the Humanitarian Team of the Year at the 2024 ESPY Awards, in recognition of the club’s incredible community impact work. In May of 2023, Angel City Football Club was named Sports Team of the Year by SBJ and was the first women's team ever to win the category.
Julie is active in the Los Angeles sports and technology communities. She is a board member of the LA Sports and Entertainment Council, The Rose Bowl Institute, and the LA Sports Council, and an active executive in the LA Chapter of WISE (Women in Sports and Events), where she was recognized as a 2022 Women of Inspiration Honoree. She is also part of the DraftKings' All-Star Network as an Advisor to Drive by DraftKings and earned her FIFA Diploma in Club Management in 2024.
Before ACFC, Uhrman served as the EVP and General Manager of OTT Ventures at Lionsgate, Head of Platform Business Development at Jaunt, a virtual reality content startup, and founder of OUYA, a pioneering Android-based game console.