ABOUT US

Sports Tech College was founded in 2024 in Melbourne and Queensland Australia to bring the best of sports innovation and digitization to the world. We created Sports Tech College solve the problem that traditional academic education was too slow, too expensive and unnecessarily complex. We wanted to create something game-changing for the next generation (our kids are all under 7 years old!). We wanted to explain the future technologies, case studies, best practices and digital solutions both simple and easily.

We have developed two solutions — Mini MBA and Schools Program — to helps professionals and teachers/coaches accelerate learning outcomes. Inspired by the LA 2028 and Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, our vision is to deliver on-demand and practical industry learning solutions to the world.

leading figures in the world of sports innovation and technology

  • Matt Dobell has Tertiary qualifications in Human Movement Science, along with International experience across Broadcast Media and Sport, Artificial Intelligence, Sales and Marketing.

    Previous to founding SportsTechCollege.com, Matt spent 8 years as a high performance personal fitness and wellbeing coach, then spent 10+ years at Australia’s largest radio broadcaster Southern Cross Media (ASX:SXL) as Commercial Director of Sport for and Head of Sales APAC for Klip Sports Artificial Intelligence (Denstu Global).

    Matt’s love of Sports Technology and Innovation stems from being an early adopter & heavy user of technology across AFL Football, Baseball, Golf & Ironman Triathlons, combined with curiosity that has led to the evolution of SportstechCollege.com

    Matt also works with Australia’s leading award-winning brand, design, creative, digital agency Playground Studio where he works in the digital and data team.

    Matt lives in Australia and is married to Sally, with two young children Freddie and Millie.

  • John R Persico is a world-recognised leader in Sports Technology, especially within Australia, Asia and Middle East. John continues to be a long-term strategist and industry expert to various Australian Governments on the future economy and world’s best practice at the technology intersection of Sports, Entertainment, Gaming and Health.  

    John is a trusted advisor to several Sports Venture Capital and Sports Investment funds for M&A, valuations, due diligence and investment management. Prior to founding SportsTechCollege.com together with Matt Dobell and Sally Dobell in 2023, John previously worked in Tier 1 investment banking/M&A, private equity, law and management consulting. John helped found the FMI, the world's leading financial modelling certification program. 

    Additionally, John is a currently a board member of the Australian Sports Technology Networks (ASTN), Adjunct Fellow of Sports Technology at Swinburne University and established Australia’s Sports Technology Conference and Australian New Zealand Sports Tech Awards (ANZSTA). John's lives and breathes “SportsTech”.  His global credibility at the intersection of education, strategy, finance and sports technology make him a wonderful part of our STC world-leading accreditation program for Sports Technology for executives, professionals and schools.

    John lives in Australia and is married to Cristina with two young children, April and Leo.