Our Team
Built by football people and data operators.
OpponentIQ brings together experience from championship football programs, coaching staffs, software products, and commercial data platforms.
Steven Barsamian
Steven Barsamian
Steven Barsamian
Founder & CEO
Steven Barsamian is the Founder and CEO of OpponentIQ, bringing together experience in football operations, coaching, data, and software development to build a better platform for game preparation and opponent analysis.
Steven began his college football career as part of the Rutgers Football Recruiting & Operations department before joining the Princeton University football staff as a quality control coach under Dennis. He was a member of Princeton’s 2013 Ivy League Championship staff.
He later coached high school football in New Jersey at Princeton High School, South Brunswick High School, and Willingboro High School. During his time at South Brunswick, the program won state championships in 2015 and 2017, while Willingboro captured a 2019 state championship.
Outside of football, Steven serves as Chief Operating Officer of The Tank Tiger, where he helped build and scale a digital marketplace and data platform serving the energy and commodities industry. His experience includes launching software and data products, commercializing proprietary datasets, and building technology designed to turn complex information into actionable intelligence for professional users.
His work in energy and commodity markets has been featured by NPR, Reuters, and Bloomberg, and he has appeared as a guest on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast.
Steven’s combination of experience inside championship football programs and building commercial data and software products helped shape the vision for OpponentIQ: applying modern data technology to the problems coaches face every week and giving staffs faster access to opponent tendencies, situational analytics, and actionable football intelligence.
Steven Barsamian is the Founder and CEO of OpponentIQ, bringing together experience in football operations, coaching, data, and software development to build a better platform for game preparation and opponent analysis.
Steven began his college football career as part of the Rutgers Football Recruiting & Operations department before joining the Princeton University football staff as a quality control coach under Dennis. He was a member of Princeton’s 2013 Ivy League Championship staff.
He later coached high school football in New Jersey at Princeton High School, South Brunswick High School, and Willingboro High School. During his time at South Brunswick, the program won state championships in 2015 and 2017, while Willingboro captured a 2019 state championship.
Outside of football, Steven serves as Chief Operating Officer of The Tank Tiger, where he helped build and scale a digital marketplace and data platform serving the energy and commodities industry. His experience includes launching software and data products, commercializing proprietary datasets, and building technology designed to turn complex information into actionable intelligence for professional users.
His work in energy and commodity markets has been featured by NPR, Reuters, and Bloomberg, and he has appeared as a guest on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast.
Steven’s combination of experience inside championship football programs and building commercial data and software products helped shape the vision for OpponentIQ: applying modern data technology to the problems coaches face every week and giving staffs faster access to opponent tendencies, situational analytics, and actionable football intelligence.
Jeff Barsamian
Jeff Barsamian
Jeff Barsamian
Chief Technology Officer
Jeff Barsamian is the Chief Technology Officer of OpponentIQ, bringing a combination of football experience and deep expertise in software architecture, data platforms, and analytics.
A former football player at the University of Pennsylvania, Jeff understands the demands of the game and the importance of turning complex information into something coaches can quickly understand and act on.
He also serves as Chief Technology Officer of The Tank Tiger, where he was the principal architect behind the company’s digital storage marketplace and proprietary data and analytics platform. His experience spans software development, data infrastructure, analytics, and building scalable technology products used by professional customers across the energy and commodities industry.
At OpponentIQ, Jeff leads the platform’s technology and data architecture, applying that experience to transform large volumes of football data into fast, intuitive, and actionable intelligence for coaching staffs.
Jeff Barsamian is the Chief Technology Officer of OpponentIQ, bringing a combination of football experience and deep expertise in software architecture, data platforms, and analytics.
A former football player at the University of Pennsylvania, Jeff understands the demands of the game and the importance of turning complex information into something coaches can quickly understand and act on.
He also serves as Chief Technology Officer of The Tank Tiger, where he was the principal architect behind the company’s digital storage marketplace and proprietary data and analytics platform. His experience spans software development, data infrastructure, analytics, and building scalable technology products used by professional customers across the energy and commodities industry.
At OpponentIQ, Jeff leads the platform’s technology and data architecture, applying that experience to transform large volumes of football data into fast, intuitive, and actionable intelligence for coaching staffs.
Dennis Goldman
Dennis Goldman
Dennis Goldman
Advisor
Dennis brings more than four decades of collegiate and professional football coaching experience to OpponentIQ. A highly regarded wide receivers coach, Dennis has coached and developed numerous future NFL players, including Pro Football Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison, Super Bowl champion David Tyree, Qadry Ismail, Jermaine Lewis, and others.
Dennis’s coaching career includes stops at Syracuse, Princeton, Maryland, Temple, Holy Cross, The Citadel, Northeastern, and the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats. At Princeton, he coached 12 All-Ivy wide receivers and was a member of the Tigers’ 2013 and 2016 Ivy League Championship staffs.
Dennis brings more than four decades of collegiate and professional football coaching experience to OpponentIQ. A highly regarded wide receivers coach, Dennis has coached and developed numerous future NFL players, including Pro Football Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison, Super Bowl champion David Tyree, Qadry Ismail, Jermaine Lewis, and others.
Dennis’s coaching career includes stops at Syracuse, Princeton, Maryland, Temple, Holy Cross, The Citadel, Northeastern, and the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats. At Princeton, he coached 12 All-Ivy wide receivers and was a member of the Tigers’ 2013 and 2016 Ivy League Championship staffs.