Tom Trudeau
Head of Systems & Strategy | Driving AI Transformation & Operational Efficiency | Ex-NBA, MLB, IPG Media Lab | Yale MBA
- Role
- Chief Operating Officer at Scout The Statline
- Location
- Garden City, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tom Trudeau
I operate at the intersection of emerging technology and legacy industry, helping organizations navigate periods of massive disruption—from the streaming revolution to the rise of Generative AI. My work centers on translating complex, rapidly evolving technical landscapes into clear operational strategy for leadership teams and the practitioners who report to them.Most recently I directed the full-scale migration of a sports representation firm from legacy infrastructure to a modernized, internally built operational ecosystem. Over the course of the engagement, I designed and deployed proprietary internal applications leveraging natural-language development and accelerated prototyping frameworks, eliminating external engineering dependencies and compressing traditional build cycles by orders of magnitude. I dismantled outdated systems, consolidated fragmented data streams into a unified intelligence layer, and automated high-frequency data pipelines that had previously required significant manual intervention. I also led comprehensive change management across the organization, training staff to integrate new workflow paradigms and prompting methodologies into their daily routines. The specific architecture and logic models of the resulting toolset remain proprietary.Prior to that, I served as a consultant for the IPG Media Lab, where I helped Fortune 500 brands—including American Express and T-Mobile—separate hype from utility. My focus was on AI literacy: demystifying the technology to equip C-Suite leaders with the clarity needed to make confident, strategic decisions in a rapidly shifting landscape.I have also been a builder and a dealmaker. As Employee No. 1 at Mojo, I helped construct a sports stock market from scratch alongside Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez. Before that, I managed complex, eight-figure media rights and digital partnerships for the NBA and MLB, launching products that brought these historic leagues to new digital audiences.I am a whole-brain operator who values the data but lives for the creative spark. Whether orchestrating a full infrastructure overhaul, structuring a complex licensing deal, or coaching a team on applied intelligence tooling beyond the chatbot, I bring energy, precision, and a bias toward building what comes next.
Experience
Chief Operating Officer
Dec 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US
ScoutTheStatline.com quickly and efficiently surfaces the best prospects exclusively using data models. Members receive daily peak projection updates and other exclusive content.
Education
Yale School of Management
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
2012 — 2014
Brown University
Bachelor's degree, Sociology
2005 — 2009
Skills
- Research
- Market Research
- Digital Media
- Sports Management
- Digital Marketing
- Entertainment
- Broadcast
- Data Analysis
- Social Networking
- Social Media Marketing
- Marketing Strategy
- Digital Strategy
- Television
- Strategic Consulting
- Video Production
- Marketing
- Analytics
- Public Relations
- Business Strategy
- Customer Insight
- Analysis
- Sports
- Sports Writing
- Video Editing
- Microsoft Office
- Radio
- Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Statistics
- Social Media
- Sports Marketing
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