SportsEdTV exists to help athletes, coaches and parents LEARN, WIN and CELEBRATE. We don’t expect everyone who uses our learning tools to become a world champion - that’s not our mission. We do expect people using our educational resources to become their own champion, by whatever definition they view success in their chosen sport. For some, success is making the varsity team. For others, it’s becoming country champion. And for others still, it may simply be gaining proficiency at a sport that offers a lifetime of fun and fitness. To us, no matter your aspirations in sport, if you are striving to improve, you are winning! For coaches, parents and friends, we want to help you assist your athletes and celebrate their exciting journey.
As a leading sports education media company, we provide the 3 things every athlete needs to IMPROVE:
- Helpful coaching advice from world-class experts
- Supportive community members, including other athletes, coaches, parents and friends
- A global directory of places to train, whether near home or when traveling.
Our FREE video and blog content is available to anyone in the world with an internet connection. SportsEdTV videos feature advice from world-class coaches and athletes - many of whom are or have coached world-champions.
Our global online community - MYSportsEdTV - is a place where athletes, parents and coaches can interact, connect, chat, share content and find new friends. Community members also enjoy special, member-only features that make the sports improvement journey easier and more fulfilling.
Our SportsEdTV DISCOVER directory and DISCOVER video content library allow visitors and members find coaches who can help them develop new skills in a one-to-one experience, and find facilities where they can practice and play at or away from home.
We offer all of this under one virtual roof!
Robert Mazzucchelli, Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Marketing Officer
Robert has worked in sports and media for over thirty-five years. His passion for sports started as a young boy with baseball and hockey. Tennis took over as his favorite sport at age twelve, and he eventually earned a scholarship to play tennis the University of Richmond. He tried his hand at playing professionally for a few years, and in 1987 started his first sports marketing company, Pinnacle Promotions with a lifelong friend (and tennis playing buddy). At Pinnacle he created and managed many sports-related events and marketing campaigns for some very big brands. In 1993, he headed to advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi Holdings (which became Cordiant Communications Group), where he co-founded marketing agency 141 Worldwide. After helping 141 Worldwide grow to serve clients in over fifty countries, he headed to sports and entertainment giant SFX Entertainment (now called Live Nation), where he led the executive team creating global brand sponsorship alliances. In 2017, he co-founded SportsEdTV (with another tennis buddy, John Eagleton). Now he is again engaged in sports and media, helping people across the world learn to be better at their favorite sports through a free global media network
Victor Bergonzoli, Chief Executive Officer
Victor is a pioneer in the world of sports video analysis, having co-founded Dartfish in 1999. A former commercial banker with Credit Suisse and executive at Swisscom, where he managed the company’s Indian operations for two years in New Delhi, Victor caught the sports entrepreneurship bug with Dartfish and never looked back. He was instrumental in signing television network NBC to use StroMotion and SimulCam, Dartfish creations, to help viewers of numerous Olympic Games gain a deeper appreciation and understanding for the competition among athletes. He won an Emmy Award for that broadcast work. As a former Swiss national weightlifting competitor, Victor has devoted his career to helping coaches and athletes gain performance insights that help them improve and win. Dartfish solutions have been used by most major sports federations, worldwide coaches and hundreds of Olympic medalists. Tennis champion, Novak Djokovic, and five-time Super Bowl championship coach, Bill Belichick are amongst Dartfish successful users. Now he leads SportsEdTV, where he is helping coaches, parents and athletes improve at their favorite sports.
John Eagleton, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Tennis
John Eagleton has devoted his life to tennis, both as a player and coach. Growing up in South Africa, he identified tennis early on as an avenue to use his athletic talents to see the world and broaden his horizons. After achieving the #3 world junior ranking in 1973, John headed to the University of Miami and became one of the schools best players ever, boasting the best win-loss percentage over a four-year career in the school’s tennis history. While in college, John beat seven NCAA champions and competed on the ATP tour, achieving top-250 rankings in both singles and doubles. Sidelined by injury after college, he refocused his tennis efforts on coaching, serving as tennis director at several clubs and running two tennis academies. He coached grand-slam winner and fellow South African, Ellis Ferreira, who reached a career high #2 ATP doubles and #212 ATP singles ranking. In 2011, John created a tennis teaching methodology called Techne Tennis, with the purpose of establishing and sharing teaching methods that were in sync with how top players today play the game. Now he spends his time, together with the talented SportsEdTV coaches and contributors, bringing leading tennis instruction ideas and content to people across the globe.
Lou Mazzucchelli, Chief Technology Officer
After receiving the first undergraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence granted in the US in 1977, Lou built microprocessor-based datacom systems and software for International Data Sciences. Later, as CIO, he brought it from manual operations to integrated, on-line data processing. On the side, he helped design the first practical tactical navigation system for 12-meter racing yachts.
In 1982 Lou created Cadre Technologies, one of the first computer-aided software engineering tools companies. He was a principal architect of Cadre’s teamwork software development environment. He and his team built Cadre into the global leader in embedded systems software development tools, with over 20,000 users worldwide. During this period Lou was named one of the top 200 people in the software industry by Software magazine.
Lou went to Wall Street in 1996, helping build a technology equity research group at Gerard Klauer Mattison & Co. His performance was recognized by The Wall Street Journal in 1999 when he was ranked the leading PC analyst and named one of 10 “Heavy Hitters” out of 2,400 analysts reviewed.
From 2001 until 2009, Lou was a venture partner at Ridgewood Capital, where he oversaw investments in semiconductor and software companies. His work at Ridgewood took advantage of his broad and deep knowledge and experience in technology, business strategy and finance.
In 2010, Lou was appointed a Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s School of Engineering, where he co-taught with Professor Emeritus Barrett Hazeltine in his two seminal business courses. He led the Entrepreneurship Program at Bryant University from 2015 to 2019.
Lou is a former public and private company director and is currently a Fellow of The Cutter Consortium, an ADL Company.
Robert Mazzucchelli, Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Marketing Officer
Robert has worked in sports and media for over thirty-five years. His passion for sports started as a young boy with baseball and hockey. Tennis took over as his favorite sport at age twelve, and he eventually earned a scholarship to play tennis the University of Richmond. He tried his hand at playing professionally for a few years, and in 1987 started his first sports marketing company, Pinnacle Promotions with a lifelong friend (and tennis playing buddy). At Pinnacle he created and managed many sports-related events and marketing campaigns for some very big brands. In 1993, he headed to advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi Holdings (which became Cordiant Communications Group), where he co-founded marketing agency 141 Worldwide. After helping 141 Worldwide grow to serve clients in over fifty countries, he headed to sports and entertainment giant SFX Entertainment (now called Live Nation), where he led the executive team creating global brand sponsorship alliances. In 2017, he co-founded SportsEdTV (with another tennis buddy, John Eagleton). Now he is again engaged in sports and media, helping people across the world learn to be better at their favorite sports through a free global media network
Victor Bergonzoli, Chief Executive Officer
Victor is a pioneer in the world of sports video analysis, having co-founded Dartfish in 1999. A former commercial banker with Credit Suisse and executive at Swisscom, where he managed the company’s Indian operations for two years in New Delhi, Victor caught the sports entrepreneurship bug with Dartfish and never looked back. He was instrumental in signing television network NBC to use StroMotion and SimulCam, Dartfish creations, to help viewers of numerous Olympic Games gain a deeper appreciation and understanding for the competition among athletes. He won an Emmy Award for that broadcast work. As a former Swiss national weightlifting competitor, Victor has devoted his career to helping coaches and athletes gain performance insights that help them improve and win. Dartfish solutions have been used by most major sports federations, worldwide coaches and hundreds of Olympic medalists. Tennis champion, Novak Djokovic, and five-time Super Bowl championship coach, Bill Belichick are amongst Dartfish successful users. Now he leads SportsEdTV, where he is helping coaches, parents and athletes improve at their favorite sports.
Paul Ciasullo, Vice Chairman
Paul Ciasullo spent two decades in finance running trading businesses in London and New York, and then pursued a lifelong dream of being an entrepreneur. He created two global b2b e-commerce business startups which both attracted private equity investment and had successful exits.
More recently, Paul has invested in early stage and start up companies in a number of different industry sectors, often offering strategic advice to founders and C suite executives and sitting on diverse Boards. His role in those companies has included hiring CEOs and CFOs, and advising on funding rounds and exits, as well as being a discerning user of their products and services.
Given his lifelong participation in sports including playing soccer at university (D1) and later in England, playing competitive squash and not always enjoying his passion for golf, SportsedTV is a natural outlet for his business and athletic passions.
Kevin Meany
Kevin Meany is an operator-investor with more than 30 years of experience building, scaling, and advising marketing and consumer-facing businesses. He founded BFG Communications and grew it from a one-person startup into a nationally recognized advertising firm with more than 400 employees, delivering consistent profitable growth and a successful exit. He later led the formation of 9Rooftops, an integrated marketing agency created through the merger of three firms, with capabilities spanning data science, consumer insights, content production, healthcare marketing, and international operations.
Most recently, Kevin served as Managing Partner of Eastport Holdings, a privately held network of seven marketing agencies. Today, he works with companies and entrepreneurs as an active investor and operating partner across consumer products, media, and real estate.
Kevin has been recognized as a South Carolina Ambassador for Economic Development and has written extensively on business leadership and talent development. Throughout his career, he has advised senior executives and major national advertisers.