Neelan has served as the President and COO at Tasktop for the last decade. He is also a mentor at Capital Factory, an Austin-based incubator, and serves as a trustee at TechGirlz, a non-profit working to get adolescent girls excited about technology.

Neelan has extensive technology management experience. He served as the COO of Lexcycle (acquired by Amazon), the company behind Stanza, the most popular e-book reader for the Apple iPhone. Previously, Neelan served as COO of SpringSource, the venture backed open source infrastructure software company behind the Spring Framework, that was acquired by VMware. Prior to that, Neelan served as co-founder and president of SolarMetric, a leading object/relational mapping provider, which was acquired by BEA Systems.

A graduate of MIT (and part of the well-publicized MIT Blackjack team), Neelan holds graduate degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.