Surendran Balachandran

CEO

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India16 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Atlan's AI Taskforce to drive AI integration.
Built inbound growth engine for major client acquisition.
Co-founded India's largest youth climate organization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Social Impact professional with a focus on growth and data-driven strategies.

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Climate ChangeCommunity DevelopmentCorporate Social ResponsibilityEnvironmental AwarenessEnvironmental IssuesManagementNon-profitsNonprofit OrganizationsNonprofitsPoliticsProgram ManagementProject ManagementSocial EntrepreneurshipSocial MediaSocial Media Marketing

About

Building Atlan's AI Taskforce. On a mission to make Atlan the most AI Native company on the planet. Before this, I led our Growth Marketing team building an inbound engine that help us reach & win some of the biggest & baddest teams in the world including the likes of General Motors, Cisco, Autodesk, Unilever, Ralph Lauren, FOX, News Corp, Nasdaq, NextGen, and HubSpot.

Experience

Atlan

4 roles

Head of AI Taskforce

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Helping Atlan become the most AI Native company on the planet!

Director of Growth

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Built & scaled our inbound growth engine that helped us reach & win some of the biggest & baddest teams in the world including the likes of General Motors, Cisco, Autodesk, Unilever, Ralph Lauren, FOX, News Corp, Nasdaq, NextGen, and HubSpot.

Growth Marketing Lead

Jan 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

Atlan is a modern data collaboration workspace (like Github for engineering or Figma for design). By acting as a virtual hub for data assets ranging from tables and dashboards to models & code, Atlan enables teams to create a single source of truth for all their data assets, and collaborate across the modern data stack through deep integrations with tools like Slack, BI tools, data science tools and more.
Proud to be enabling amazing teams like Plaid, Postman & Unilever.
Backed by top investors like Insight, Sequoia & Waterbridge and amazing angels such as the founding teams of Snowflake, Looker, Stitch
Recognised as a Gartner Cool Vendor in the inaugural report on DataOps, one of the top 3 companies globally.

Business Lead, Collect

Jan 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

Collect was the first of our internal tools from SocialCops to be launched as a SaaS. The platform enabled customer to capturer accurate data from the field using mobile phones, even if there is no internet. The data the powered real-time insights to drive both operational & strategic decisions.
Grew the business to acquire customers across 50+ countries (including FMCG majors, Global Nonprofits, BFSI customer, fast growing startups and more)
Built the business unit including the marketing, sales, customer success teams

Socialcops

3 roles

Business Lead, Collect

Oct 2017 – Dec 2017 · 2 mos

SocialCops is the world's leading data for good company behind landmark data for good projects in the world:
1/ We built India's entire National Data Platform which is used by PM Modi and every member of parliament in India.
2/ We power the UN SDGs monitoring as a global partner for the United Nations for countries including India, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea.
3/ Behind Ujjwala - Gas subsidy for 50M Indian women below the poverty line: the first government program in India to surpass 22% of its annual target!
SocialCops was recognised as a New York Times Global Visionary. By 2018, we'd impacted the lives of over a billion people.

Growth & Marketing Team Lead

Promoted

Jan 2017 – Oct 2017 · 9 mos

Growth Marketeer

Nov 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

Change.org

2 roles

Senior Campaigner

Sep 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

Campaigner

Sep 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs

As a part of the Change.org India founding team, I worked on two broad areas:
Supporting people from across the country who started campaigns on Change.org, supporting them with campaign and strategic inputs to help them win.
Grow the user base of Change.org to ~ 2 million subscribers by adopting various growth strategies from time to time, a/b testing, sharing best practices within the global team.

350.org

South Asia Campaigns Co-cordinator

Jun 2009 – Jan 2010 · 7 mos

Worked as a part of the South Asia Campaigns team mobilising people across India for the international day of climate action, the single largest political mobilisation in the history of earth with more than 5200 actions across 180 + countries

Jss academy of technical education

Lecturer

Sep 2008 – May 2009 · 8 mos

I held 3 distinct responsibilities during my time at JSS Academy:
Worked as a faculty in the Department of Computer science
Worked as the Assistant Center Superintendent in the Examination cell
Was a part of a small team comprising of senior faculty and administrators overseeing audits & certifications like ISO

Indian youth climate network

Co-founder & Board Member

Jul 2008 – Jul 2012 · 4 yrs · New Delhi Area, India

Indian Youth Climate Network is the largest youth run organisation in India with presence in 18 states of India and reaching out to tens of thousands of young people all over the country.
As one of the founding members of the IYCN Society, I worked on various roles ranging from communication, fundraising, project management, stakeholder management, knowledge and skill building activities across India.