OWL AI announced the appointment of Jay Prasad as Chief Executive Officer and member of its Board of Directors. Mr. Prasad replaces Josh Gwyther, who has served as CEO since the company’s inception and will transition into an advisory role. Founder Jeremy Bloom will continue as executive chairman.
Prasad joins the company from Relo Metrics, where he was CEO. Previously, he was Chief Strategy Officer at LiveRamp and a founding executive at VideoAmp. OWL AI, founded by Bloom and launched in Boulder, Colorado, debuted its AI-powered judging platform at the 2025 X Games and went on to raise $11 million in a seed round led by S32 with participation from Menlo Ventures and Susa Ventures.
“When we launched Owl AI, our goal was not only to eliminate human error in officiating and officiating sports, but also to build a layer of intelligence behind every live sporting event,” he says. Jeremy Bloom, OWL AI Founder and Executive Chairman. “Jay has spent his career growing category-defining technology businesses at the intersection of media, data and AI. He is the right leader to help deliver OWL to leagues, broadcasters, rights holders and live events around the world.”
“Every live sporting event creates tremendous value in direction, production, branding, live experience and fan experience that is not captured today. OWL is building a live intelligence layer to capture that. It is one platform that turns live video into real-time understanding, deployed across all sports involved. This technology is already proven in leagues and broadcasters, and my job is to take it to the world.” Jay Prasad, OWL AI CEO.
“This has been a great year building our team, product, and securing our first league in OWL. As OWL enters its next phase of growth, we’re excited to have Jay scale our business and look forward to continuing to keep our team on the cutting edge of AI.” Josh Gwyther, OWL AI Advisor.
OWL AI’s platform applies AI agents to live video to direct support, playback and production automation, broadcast enhancement, AI-driven analysis and commentary, and fan engagement applications.
