Tech Advisor | Startup Mentor | Coach | Board Member | Angel Investor

Desigan Chinniah, aka Dees, provides seasoned startup, dot-com hardened*, functional, strategic, creative and zero-bullshit executive mentoring, coaching and advice.

Advisor: Ably + BRCK** + Cinnamon + Coil + GreenTec** + hubii** + Mozilla Foundation + OutVoice + Self** + Snips** (acquired by Sonos) + The Bot Platform** + Voi Scooters + Zama

Investor: Athens + Backstage + BonfireIM*** + CoGrammar / HyperionDev + Erase All Kittens + Eventasaurus*** + Juked + Makielab (acquired by Disney) + Replay +Roleshare + Yodomo

Mentor: Akirachix + Design Club + Seedcamp + Wevolver

Board: Ushahidi + Grant for the Web (co-creator)

tl;dr

Dees possesses a unique set of Swiss-Army-Knife like talents and experiences - at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Business Development, Marketing, Fundraising, Community and Developer Relations.

A sneakerhead and self-confessed geek, he lives in London with his wife, Sanne and their two kids, Summer Skye & Kiran Quinn.

You’ve come this far… Why not say helloATdesiganchinniahDOTcom?

* formerly at Ask Jeeves, Skype, BBC, eBay, PayPal, Mozilla - the makers of Firefox

**alumni

***dissolved