Jonathan Weisz BIO
Jonathan Weisz is a graduate of THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at Austin in 1988 where he graduated with a bachelor of business administration Marketing degree. After graduating the University of Texas, he attended California Western School of Law in 1988/1989 in San Diego to study Sports Law. Jonathan has been married 27 years and has raised triplet boys; Keaton, Chandler and Zachary Weisz. All earned division 1 baseball scholarships for the fall of 2016.
His business career expands over 30 years as a successful entrepreneur. Through his many business ventures, Jonathan has negotiated contracts in excess of five hundred million dollars with Fortune 100 companies.
In 1991, Jonathan founded National Call Processing which evolved into itarget.com as technology rapidly changed. Itarget.com was one of the first online database marketing companies and was profitable from inception. Itarget.com was venture backed and sold in 2000 to Cybergold who was eventually acquired by United Airlines. Jonathan joined the executive management team at Cybergold and helped operate the public entity. https://www.bizwiz.com/bizwizwire/pressrelease/1556/8j88y78fxjee78s888e.htm
After leaving Cybergold in 2002, Jonathan founded SKLZ (formerly Pro Performance Sports, PPS) which quickly became the leader in sports training products. SKLZ became famous for one of the most popular ever training items, The Hit A-Way. Jonathan was CEO of Pro Performance Sports and personally funded the company as a start up. After the company began manufacturing and distributing product, Jonathan raised additional capital and sold his interest in 2003. SKLZ products were launched though direct response TV and QVC along with most major sporting goods retailers including Dick’s, Sports Authority, Hibbett and mass merchandisers including Wal-Mart. SKLZ current annual sales are approaching $100mm.
After the successful exit from PPS (SKLZ) Jonathan began partnering with San Diego home builder, Greg Agee to build and sell spec homes in the high end Poway development, The Heritage. The spec homes were sold at an average of $3.5mm
In 2004, Jonathan founded OnTech, Inc and raised venture capital to build a successful self heating technology company. As CEO of OnTech, we were able to develop the technology to heat beverages with no heat or electricity using Calcium Oxide and Water. The company gained distribution in most major grocery stores and became the 3rd leading ready to drink beverage at Wal-Mart outselling such brands as Pepsi and Starbucks. In 2007, OnTech signed a 200+million packaging agreement with one of the top plastics manufactures in the United States but the partner was never able to make the product. OnTech ceased operations in 2008. Jonathan is the founder and president of Weisz Sports, LLC. Jonathan’s passion for the game of baseball is the driving force behind founding the agency.