Anand Chandrasekaran

Anand Chandrasekaran General Information

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Mr. Anand Chandrasekaran is a Co-Founder and serves as President & Board Member at Crescendo. Mr. Chandrasekaran serves as a Venture Advisor at General Catalyst. He is an Angel Investor. He serves as an Advisor at SignEasy. He served as an Advisor at Arkam Ventures and Fiddler. He served as an Advisor of Enterprise at Tau Ventures. He served as Director of Partnerships at Facebook. He served as an Advisor at Silversparro. He serves as a Board Member at ToneTag. He served as Chief Product Officer at Bharti Airtel and Snapdeal. He serves as Senior Director of Local Search, Listings, and Map at Yahoo. He currently drives mobile product management within the search product group at Yahoo! Before Yahoo!, he served as a Venture Advisor at Storm Ventures. He was Director of PM at Openwave (NASDAQ: OPWV) driving new product incubation and day-to-day product management of the mobile mediation product line which touched 200+M subscribers daily through 70+ mobile operators. Before Openwave, he served as Chief Technology Officer and Head of Product at MorfMobile, a platform that specialized in mobilizing premium content and services. Earlier, He was with MyToday SMS (India), a mobile content publisher with over 17M+ monthly mobile users and 12 billion+ SMS messages sent annually. Previously, he co-founded and helped build Aeroprise, and under his leadership, Aeroprise's mobile personalization solutions became the most deployed mobility tool worldwide for service management with 120 enterprise customers and were recently acquired by BMC Software (NYSE: BMC). He also co-founded Kwaish which was acquired by Aeropress. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engg. from Stanford University and a Bachelor's in Engg. from PSG College of Technology (India), and has completed the Global Leadership and Policy Program at Harvard University. In 2010, he was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. He served as a Board Member of Unwired Planet.