Vishal Vasan
San Francisco, CA0
AI Product Manager at Next League | MBA Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
Product manager with computer science and statistics background shipping AI systems end to end. Built probabilistic models for national sports broadcasts; now builds agentic products both at work and as a founder.
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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
Experience
Founder & CEO
Hops AIMar 2026 — Present · Remote
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 · Remote
Multi-agent platform deploying teams of AI agents across engineering, support, and back-office functions. Backed by MiraclePlus with $300K pre-seed raise. Own product vision, GTM, and discovery.
AI Product Manager
Next LeagueMay 2026 — Present · New York City Metropolitan Area
VC-backed sports technology consultancy working with NFL, MLS, NWSL teams, NASCAR, PGA Tour, and others. Built AI strategy for Hometown Soccer Holdings mapping agentic and predictive systems across club operations and fan products. Shipped voice AI agents for Gotham FC handling ticketing and sponsorship sales conversations.
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
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Aug 2024 — May 2027
Purdue University
Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
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 ManagementLLM PMAgentic SystemsPrompt EngineeringAI EvaluationProbabilistic ModelingNLPComputer VisionPythonSQLGitTableau