From my late teens, until I was 40, I built one of the largest parking management companies in the greater Boston area. I operated 365/24/7 parking garages, car parks, and valet parking services. My clients were the Boston Red Sox, all major restaurants, and nightclubs. My base of operations was an upscale country club, where I operated several concessions for as long as 25 years. The club had a very active tennis program, and one day in my early 20s, I asked the tennis pro for some lessons. The rest is history, as they say. I loved the game.

Soon I was playing with the best players and enjoying the experience of playing, going to pro tour tournaments, meeting the pros and their coaches, etc. It wasn’t long before I took courses to teach tennis and got certified. Shortly thereafter, I became the club tennis pro and began to give lessons to the club members. Over the next few years, I turned over the management of my parking business to a younger brother and went to New York with my fiancée for her modeling career. I got a job teaching tennis at the East River Tennis Club and loved it. I was in my element.

I met a young professional player, Eric Fromm, who was ranked 135th in the world. We decided I would be his coach and travel the pro circuit with him. We were together for six months, during which time I learned much about the professional side of tennis. Eric rose to the top 30 in the world rankings, and I realized I wanted to be director of tennis at a high-end club in Florida or California. As it turns out, I did both. I was first the general manager of the famous Jack Kramer Club in Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, and later the director of tennis at Williams Island in Aventura, Florida. Somewhere around then, I became very interested in the work of Werner Erhard, the founder of Est Training, the Landmark Forum, and the discipline of transformation. If you know anything about tennis, the psychological side of the game is crucial; this is where champions are made.

One thing I learned being with the pros on tour is that the top one hundred players in the world all have similar skill levels, yet what separates them is their mental approach, or who they are on the court or anywhere in general. I was fascinated by this because I could never figure out how I, a valet car parker, was so successful building the business I had built or becoming the director of tennis at a place like Williams Island, where celebrities like Sophia Loren, Bruce Willis, and Whitney Houston lived. I went to work with Werner Erhard, who, incidentally, is credited with starting the worldwide human personal growth and development industry.

I discovered that we humans have no idea who we are. We have powers and abilities beyond imagination. I worked for Werner for 3 years and realized I had many years of experience owning and managing things but no experience knowingly developing people. I went into the trenches and spent 10 years at the Emilson YMCA in Hanover, Massachusetts, a virtual tennis teaching factory with 40000 members and a pro staff of 20 instructors. During that time, I discovered tennis is the perfect venue for people to grow and develop themselves and to alter their inner dialogue from one of disempowerment to one of empowerment. It amazes me every time I see people come to life learning to play tennis.

My niche is 9–15-year-old kids. The programs for kids that age at the Y were sold out for years. I was celebrated as the person who made the biggest difference in the lives of several 6th-grade students by the students themselves at the school's annual Make a Difference event with 450 students.

Now I am wanting to build what I call Breakthrough Tennis into a world-famous operation that shapes the future of tennis and ultimately makes an enormous difference in the lives of kids that is irrevocable. That is the reason for my website—to get this and the work I do out to a worldwide audience.