ABOUT US

The Zog Team

Meet the ZogSports team!  Here's where you can learn about our full-time staff (yes, we have a full-time staff!).  We take our jobs and our fun very seriously and we hope to get to know you at the fields, gyms and happy hours.

Click our names to the left to learn a little about us.  We'll quiz you at the fields.

Robert Nowell

Rob first learned about ZogSports while attending Columbia University.  He began refereeing in the fall of 2003 and even became the first ZogSports summer intern in 2004.  After graduating college, Rob led his Zog football team to multiple division championships.  He even showed off his amateur video editing skills by winning the first ever ZogSports Video Contest. 

Soon thereafter, Rob realized his true passion for “Zog”.  He decided to part from the world of finance and rejoin the ZogSports family.  In the summer of 2010, he packed up his closet of ZogSports t-shirts, leaving the Big Apple, to bring ZogSports to Washington DC.  You can spot Rob around town sporting one of his many headbands on the field or rocking out to Jason Mraz on the Metro traveling to the game. If you stay at Happy Hour long enough, he might even serenade you with an acoustic rendition of “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”. 

Rob Herzog

Robert "Zog" Herzog is the man behind the curtain. He founded ZogSports after having a close call on 9/11.  After arriving late for work, he witnessed his office, which was located on the 96th floor of World Trade Center Tower #1, being directly hit by the first plane.  Rob decided to build on the tremendous human charity he witnessed following 9/11 and to help foster community in New York by creating ZogSports, which encourages New Yorkers to maintain perspective and a more balanced lifestyle by having fun while also giving something back to the community.  Click here to read the letter that Rob wrote to all of our customers on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.  Robert holds an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from Brown University.

When he's not priming ZogSports to take over the world, Rob enjoys hanging with his wife Laurin and their two little Zogs, Spencer and Jackson.  In fact, Rob says his lifetime sports highlight was meeting Laurin even while getting mercy-ruled in a citywide softball tournament (she played 2nd base and he was at short) then shooting an 84 on a very tough golf course and finally coincidentally seeing Laurin again at a party that night.  Rob dropped the line: "Oooh, you clean up nice!" on her and the rest is history.  In his spare time from organizing this massive operation, Rob can be found making cameos at the fields and gyms, getting down at ZogSports parties, and boogying to 80s tunes in his office.