Tanu Chellam
Managing Director at Techstars
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTanu Chellam is a product-focused technology leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building and scaling SaaS, AI and cybersecurity products across the UK, US and Southeast Asia. As Managing Director and former Chair at Atlas Rosetta she blends strategic board-level governance with hands-on product leadership, having co-founded ventures in live-streaming and cybersecurity training while scaling ML product teams at Seldon. She combines a strong engineering foundation—from early software roles at Oracle and Standard Chartered to product delivery leadership at Autodesk—with deep experience mentoring startups through Techstars, IoT Tribe and MentorCruise. A frequent speaker and advisor to the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, she’s skilled at unifying fragmented brand, product and go-to-market efforts to unlock growth. Notably, she moves fluidly between building developer-facing ML tooling and customer-centric SaaS experiences, pairing technical rigor with practical commercial outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate, High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)Executive MBA Alt, Program for Leadership Development (PLDA), Executive MBA Alt, Program for Leadership Development (PLDA) at Harvard Business SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Malay, Tamil, Hindi, Chinese, German, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tanuchellam/tanuchellam.github.io
Mar 2014 - Sep 2022
Contributions:123 commits, 3 PRs, 115 pushes in 8 years 7 months
Rosetta-Digital/rosetta.io
Nov 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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