Tanu Chellam
Strategic, Technical & Entrepreneurial Product Leader




This is my story

About Me

Global product leader with 20 years of experience in developing customer-centric solutions, leading cross-functional teams, and creating strategic roadmaps for market-leading, innovative, and scalable products. Comfortable operating in growth-stage startups, building from scratch, up to running established teams with 80+ people. Strong background in navigating complex challenges in data-driven industries, including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and fintech.

Tanu Chellam at HBS

In 2012, a friend and I were crossing the road, when a truck crashed into us. It took me almost 9 months to learn how to walk again and changed my life forever.


So every day, I wake up wanting to make a difference. To me, meaning comes from giving back to society in a sustainable way while being able to provide for myself and my family. Through growing or rebuilding products and my entrepreneurial experiences in the past 20 years globally, my passion lies in helping for-profit startups innovate towards driving meaningful change. I have held managerial and leadership roles internationally, working across a range of corporate and startup environments.


At Seldon, I lead the product department, comprising product management, product marketing, design, technical writing and developer relations, where I enable the company to innovate towards ethical change with a profitable business model.

I also previously co-founded and currently chair the board of directors for a global creative and tech agency, Atlas Rosetta, providing consulting services globally.



Check out my portfolio for more information about my past work.

Timeline

An overview of my career.

  • 2021 — Present

    VP Product

    London, UK

    As Seldon's primary product leader, I lead development of advanced machine learning operations solutions that empower data scientists and MLOps engineers to ethically and efficiently manage models at scale.

    • Top 30 Women in Product, Product Management Festival 2023
    • 28 Most Impressive & Successful VPs in the AI Space, Best Startup 2022
    • 27 UK VP Products to Follow, Welp Magazine 2022
    • Inspiring Fifty, EQL:her at London Tech Week 2021
    • Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Atlas Rosetta
    • Global Mentor, Techstars
    • Advisor, Harvard Business Review
    • Exceptional Talent Visa Alumni & Founders' Network, TechNation
    • Member, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence (APPG AI), UK Parliament

  • 2020 — 2021

    Managing Director

    Bristol, UK

    Co-founded and managed the consultancy, providing fractional CPO services for AI, cybersecurity, and fintech sectors in the UK, US and Southeast Asia.

    • 35 Under 35, Management Today 2021
    • Co-Founder, Safeguard Scholar
    • Co-Founder, Upstream
    • Mentor, MentorCruise
    • Business Mentor, IoT Tribe Accelerator
    • ANHW SF and UK Leadership Team, HBS Alumni

  • 2017 — 2020

    Head of Product, Product Delivery (Senior Product Line Manager)

    San Franscisco, USA

    Transformed the discovery, launch, and onboarding experience for 300+ products by reconstructing a platform, reducing customer effort, cutting time-to-launch from 3 hours to under 8 minutes for multiple flagship products and reducing support case volume by 12% YoY with matrixed responsibility for a global team of 80.

    • SAP Team Innovation Award 2020
    • YWCA Silicon Valley Tribute to Women Award 2019
    • ANHW SF and UK Leadership Team, HBS Alumni
    • ADSK Partnership Manager, Women in Product
    • Professional Mentor, TechWomen
    • Volunteer Regional Events Organiser, CMU Alumni
    • Advisor, DSO

  • 2014 — 2017

    Product Line Manager

    Silicon Valley, USA
    Ran product within content security, analytics and cloud microservices; boosting email security, recovering web security and creating a new reporting product to showcase insights.

    • Evangelist, DSO
    • Contributor, Product Hunt
    • Regional Events Volunteer, CMU Alumni

  • 2013 — 2014

    Product & Business Strategy Manager

    New York, USA

    Steered a team running numerous digital transformation initiatives, cutting operational inefficiencies by 35% by establishing inter-departmental collaboration, liaising cross-functionally to define requirements, and developing in-house software, including an internal communications tool and middleware software integrations.

    • Advisor, DSO
    • Volunteer Regional Events Organiser, CMU Alumni

  • 2011 — 2019

    Co-Founder

    Washington DC, USA

    Co-founded a 501(c)3 nonprofit, growing it into a 200-member global organization providing technology, marketing and business strategy consulting to social enterprises working on healthcare, education and economic empowerment by partnering with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and leading universities like MIT and Stanford.

    • Member, Forte Foundation
    • Club Treasurer, Society of Women Engineers Chapter

  • 2005 — 2011

    Founder, Website Design Firm

    Singapore, SG

    Pioneered building websites to meet a budding demand for Singaporean small businesses to have simple e-commerce marketplaces.

    • Software Engineer, Standard Chartered Bank
    • Software Engineer, Oracle
    • Business Analyst, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    • Software Engineer, Prudential Assurance Company

Portfolio

Here are examples of some of my past public work.

Autodesk desktop app

Autodesk desktop app

Product Delivery

Barracuda Reporting Server

Barracuda Reporting Server

Insights

Barracuda Essentials for Email Security

Barracuda Essentials

Email Security

MindMapper: A Side Project

MindMapper: A Side Project

Personal Project

Credit Suisse IT Initiatives

Operations IT Transformation

DSO Tech Hub

Development Solutions Organization

Tech Hub Development

My Travels

I love traveling. Tracking where I've been is a hobby, and worth many stories.

Contact Me

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