Mellie Chow

Mellie Chow is an engineer-turned product and innovation executive, venture capitalist, and educator with 25+ years of experience building, scaling, and investing in technology-driven businesses across telecommunications, media, financial services, healthcare, utilities, government, and consumer tech.

She operates at the intersection of emerging technology, real customer behavior, and enterprise-scale execution, with deep expertise in AI-enabled products, competitive product strategy, corporate innovation, and venture investment. Mellie has advised and invested in dozens of early- and growth-stage companies and has supported multiple notable exits and acquisitions across North America.

Mellie currently serves as a Board Advisor to Techstars Toronto, supporting the relaunch of the accelerator, and is a Venture Partner at Archangel Axion Fund, focused on commercializing IP-driven innovation. She is also an active advisor and mentor across the global startup ecosystem, including Founders Institute, venture labs, and university-based acceleration programs.

In parallel with her venture work, Mellie has held senior leadership roles in enterprise innovation and corporate strategy, most recently as Executive Director of Competitive Intelligence and Product Strategy at Comcast, where she built proprietary research and innovation frameworks used to inform product roadmaps, AI investments, and go-to-market decisions across consumer and media platforms.

Mellie is an Adjunct Professor at NYU’s School of Professional Studies, where she teaches Management Skills for Tech Professionals, and at Elizabethtown College’s, where she teaches Competitive Product Strategy. Her teaching and speaking focus on leading through ambiguity, scaling innovation responsibly, and translating emerging technology into durable business value.

She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Business (Northwestern University) and Schulich School of Business (York University).