| @anandc | |
| Birthplace | India |
| Stanford University |
MIT Technovators Award
Between 2001 and 2008, Anand co-founded and helped build Aeroprise Inc. Since co-authoring the business plan and launching its products, he grew the company into the most-deployed mobility tool worldwide for service management. Customers include Safeway, I.B.M., U.S. Air Force, Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, Harvard University and DirecTV. He was an Aeroprise board member and was named by MIT to the 2004 Global Technovators list.
Anand’s entrepreneurial efforts have been covered by Business Week, Business 2.0, Economic Times, CNBC Asia and Christian Science Monitor. He has been an advisor to MyToday SMS, e4e and the Mobile Enterprise Alliance (MEA) and board member of ReelSurfer and Indee.TV.
He holds an MS in EE from Stanford University, where he was invited to co-teach MS&E 271 and as guest lecturer for E145 (both courses on entrepreneurship), and a BS with highest honors from PSG College of Tech, India. Anand also pursued a personal passion for transformative mass media and produced the documentary “Tapestries of Hope.” He is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA).
