Vishal Vasan
Pittsburgh, PA0
AI Product Manager at Next League | MBA Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
Product manager with a computer science and statistics background who ships AI systems end to end. Built probabilistic models that ran on national sports broadcasts, and now runs AI agents in production for clients and his own startups.
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SymbIoTic
Participated in West Lafayette Startup Weekend to develop Automated Platform to combat food wastage and food donations through implementation of IoT sensors and data analytics
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Freebie iOS App
iOS app that allows users to be notified of free item giveaways linked to organizations around college campuses
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Walmart Hackathon Voting
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Revenue Operations Agents
Agent workflows on live Cloudbeds data for an 8-room independent hotel (Traveler's Rest, via Hops AI)
Runs pricing rules, rate floors, and OTA rate integrity checks with human approval on every change. Diagnosed and fixed a below-floor OTA rate leak and built 2027 pricing across 295 dates. First-quarter bookings were down 59% year over year at the start of 2026.
Experience
Founder & CEO
Hops AIMar 2026 — Present · Not specified
Building an agentic operations layer for independent hospitality. Running a paid pilot with Traveler's Rest and an in-progress integration with Priory Hospitality Group.
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Emagen AIDec 2025 — Present · Not specified
Own product vision, go-to-market, and discovery for Cagen, a multi-agent platform that deploys teams of AI agents across engineering, support, and back-office functions. Backed by MiraclePlus, raised $300K pre-seed.
AI Product Manager
Next LeagueMay 2026 — Present · New York City Metropolitan Area
Built the AI strategy for Hometown Soccer Holdings, mapping where agentic and predictive systems create leverage across club operations and fan-facing products. Building a reusable library of agent demos for sports commercial teams (sponsorship prospecting, document extraction, recurring reporting) on the OpenAI stack, packaged as starter kits to speed up client implementations. Clients include NFL, MLS, and NWSL teams, NASCAR, the PGA Tour, and New York Road Runners.
Senior Product Manager, Sports Data Products
Fox CorporationFeb 2023 — May 2026 · Los Angeles, CA
Led end-to-end development of Fox Foresight, a probabilistic MLB live game insights engine featured on national broadcasts including the 2024 and 2025 World Series reaching ~16M viewers each. Built and launched NBA and NCAAB win probability models powering automated highlight recaps and improving content retention. Redesigned and integrated win probability, expected points, and real-time NLP insights across NFL, CFB, and UFL play-by-play pages. Managed Cleatus AI sports LLM, owning roadmap, metrics, and evaluation processes.
Education
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Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
MBA, Focus: AI for Business, Entrepreneurship
Aug 2024 — May 2027
Purdue University
BS Computer Science, BS Data Science, BS Applied Statistics (Triple Major)
Aug 2016 — May 2020
Concentration in Machine Intelligence
Purdue University
Bachelor of Science - BS in Data Science
Purdue University
Bachelor of Science - BS in Applied Statistics
Credentials
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Crowe Learn2Lead Conference Attendee
Crowe LLP
Issued Jun 2018
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Crowe Horwath 2018 Case Competition 2nd Place Winner
Crowe LLP
Issued Apr 2018
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2018 Mortar Board Leadership Conference Attendee
Mortar Board Purdue
Issued Jan 2018
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Master the Mainframe Certified Completer
IBM
Issued Jan 2016
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Skills
RoadmappingPRDsA/B TestingGTMStakeholder ManagementAgentic SystemsPrompt EngineeringAI EvaluationProbabilistic ModelingNLPComputer VisionPythonSQLGitTableauJira