GREENSBORO – In partnership with Teamworks Influencer (Influencer), North Carolina A&T athletics has launched the Aggie Exchange to connect student-athletes and businesses for Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) opportunities.

Free to student-athletes and commercial enterprises, the Aggie Exchange provides a customized portal for communicating with student-athletes to fulfill NIL transactions. Interested parties and businesses can register through the online portal and partner directly with A&T student-athletes.
 
"North Carolina A&T has always embraced the principles of competitive excellence, sportsmanship, diversity, and amateurism while having our student-athletes excel in academic achievements," said North Carolina A&T Director of Athletics Earl M. Hilton III. "The Aggie Exchange supported by the Influencer platform positions all our student-athletes to work toward taking advantage of their Name, Image and Likeness potential. Influencer provides a model for a student-athlete-centered approach and will significantly enhance our NIL efforts."
 
"It is exciting to see A&T Athletics supporting their student-athletes by providing a fee-free platform to monetize their personal brands with NIL," said Sean Kelly, Influencer Director of Partnerships "The Aggie Exchange will empower every A&T athlete the opportunity to create powerful connections with the local community, leading to partnership and NIL deals."
 
After being approved, registered businesses can search, filter, and initiate conversations directly with student-athletes regarding NIL opportunities. Student-athletes can view all companies in the exchange and negotiate terms on any NIL deals they would like to pursue, and they can also initiate conversations with registered businesses in the Aggie Exchange.
 
Once the NIL deal between a registered business and a student-athlete is completed, the company will use the Aggie Exchange to create a transaction that will directly pay the student-athlete and automate a disclosure to the A&T Compliance Office. A&T and Influencer do not get involved in the deal, and all transactions with Aggie Exchange are consolidated into one 1099 at the end of the year for easier tax reporting purposes for registered businesses and student-athletes.
 
About Teamworks Influencer

Influencer, available on Teamworks' Operating System for Sports™, is the leading athlete brand-building and NIL business management app for over 270 elite collegiate and professional sports organizations. The Influencer athlete app educates 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. The Influencer platform also includes the impactful Local Exchange, a school-customized NIL exchange where schools can direct businesses, collectives, and fans seeking to find, communicate with, pay, and report NIL transactions with student-athletes. The Local Exchange maximizes the student-athlete wallet share while streamlining compliance and tax reporting responsibilities. To learn more about the Local Exchange, please visit teamworks.com/influencer