Rick Alessandri
Managing Director of Sports Media & Technology
Media & Sports Tech is led by Rick Alessandri, with 30+ years’ experience in the industry. In 1982, Mr. Alessandri started as GM of SportsTicker, which was acquired by ESPN, and Mr. Alessandri worked his way up at ESPN over a 20–year career, ultimately becoming Chief of Staff to ESPN President George Bodenheimer, CXO of the X Games and SVP of ESPN Enterprises. Mr. Alessandri’s ESPN Enterprise team was responsible for all of ESPN’s brand extensions from X Games and ESPN branded merchandise, ESPN Golf Schools and the ESPN Zone restaurants.
Mr. Alessandri most recently served seven years as EVP, Enterprise Development at Univision where his team was able to generate more than $250M in incremental annual revenue by building new businesses, sports and music events and brand extensions to serve the ever–growing Hispanic American community.
Mr. Alessandri joined ZRG in October 2018 to help launch and grow ZRG's media and tech search division and is honored to have led searches for DAZN’s Chief Communications Officer and Vice President, Media, Major League Rugby’s Commissioner, Monumental Sports Network’s SVP & General Manager, Head of the Charles Regatta’s Executive Director, College Coaches Skills Camp CEO, Main Street Sports’ COO, and C360 Technologies’ CEO to name a few.
