Rohan Popenoe

About

I build technology that brings people closer together.

I'm a product manager and first-year MBA candidate at NYU Stern, specializing in tech product management and AI. I spent four years at RiskSpan, a structured-finance analytics firm, growing from junior analyst to product manager of its agentic AI platform. I pushed for AI early, while its value was still debated inside the company,.

Human connection is what drives my work. I believe technology, used with intention, can help people find each other again. Music does that better than almost anything, so in my free time I'm building a live listening space where people anywhere can share music together in real time.

My grandfather was an inventor who took his idea from prototype all the way to market. I carry his example with me, and I came to Stern to maximize my impact.

Outside work I'm training for my private pilot license. I also ride motorcycles, play guitar, ukulele and violin, cook, backpack, and look for live music anywhere I can find it in New York City.

Experience

2025 – 2026

Product Manager, RiskSpan

Arlington, VA

  • Owned strategy and roadmap for an agentic AI platform serving 12 enterprise clients and $6M in engagements.
  • Led a six-person international UI/UX team through a full platform overhaul; adoption supported 50% YoY growth in recurring revenue.
  • Trained up to 50 colleagues across product, sales and analytics as the firm's AI Champion.
2022 – 2025

Junior → Senior Business Analyst, RiskSpan

Promoted early to Product Manager

  • Built the live demo approach for agentic AI features with sales engineering, supporting 30% YoY ARR growth.
  • Led migration of 50 client-facing reports to a cloud BI platform across four direct reports in India and the US, with no service disruption.
  • Built MCP servers and RAG chatbots that reached company-wide adoption.
2019 – 2024

Founder, Altitude Media Productions

Syracuse, NY

  • Ran a real estate marketing studio selling drone and cinematic video packages; owned positioning, pricing and client relationships.
2021 – 2022

Research Intern to the CEO, Dynex Capital

Glen Allen, VA

  • Wrote a weekly macroeconomic briefing for leadership and built recurring R visualizations for strategy discussions.

Education

2026 – 2028

NYU Stern School of Business

MBA, Tech Product Management and Artificial Intelligence

  • AVP of Mentorship, Stern Tech Association
  • AVP of Community, Stern Entrepreneurship and Startup Association
  • AVP of Adventure Planning, Stern Adventures
2018 – 2022

Syracuse University, Maxwell School

BA, Economics and International Relations · Minor in Spanish

  • Renée Crown Honors Scholar. Thesis on Chilean constitutional exceptionalism, with field interviews of President Gabriel Boric and six members of Congress in Santiago.

Projects

Agentic AI · Product

Agentic AI platform ↗

Roadmap and discovery for RiskSpan's AI platform, built with 12 enterprise clients.

Python · MCP

MCP servers

Connected Jira, Snowflake and internal APIs to AI tools; adopted across the company.

OpenAI API · RAG

Support and sales assistants

Chatbots grounded in internal documentation, used by the full support and sales teams.

Swift · AI

Personal AI apps

Small tools I build for myself to try new models and interaction patterns.

Startup

Altitude Media ↗

A real estate video studio I started in college and ran for five years.

Research

Chilean constitutionalism ↗

Honors thesis based on fieldwork and interviews with national leaders in Santiago.

Contact

Emailrohan.popenoe@stern.nyu.edu
LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/rpopenoe
Rohan Popenoe on a Manhattan rooftop
New York City · 40.76° N, 73.99° W© 2026 Rohan Popenoe