Anand Chandrasekaran is an Indian entrepreneur and business executive. He was the former

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Snapdeal Snapdeal is an Indian e-commerce company, based in New Delhi, India. It was founded in February 2010 by Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal. Snapdeal is one of the top 5 online marketplaces in India. Snapdeal targets the value e-commerce segment, w ...

and

Airtel Bharti Airtel Limited is an Indian multinational telecommunications company based in New Delhi. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, as well as the Channel Islands. Currently, Airtel provides 5G, 4G and LTE Advanced ...

Early life and education

Chandrasekaran did his bachelor's degree in

communications engineering Telecommunications engineering is a subfield of electronics engineering which seeks to design and devise systems of communication at a distance. The work ranges from basic circuit design to strategic mass developments. A telecommunication engin ...

from

PSG College of Technology PSG College of Technology (often abbreviated as PSG Tech) is an autonomous, Government Aided, government aided, private engineering college in Coimbatore, India. It is affiliated with Anna University. It is an initiative of the PSG and Sons C ...

. He did his master's in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

Career

Chandrasekaran started his career in 2001 by co-founding ''Aeroprise''. He was the Director of Product at ''Openwave''. In 2011, he joined

Yahoo Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, an ...

as the senior director of mobile and search, and in 2014 he quit his job from Yahoo. After that he joined as the Chief Product Officer of

Bharti Airtel Bharti Airtel Limited is an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational Telecommunications in India, telecommunications company based in New Delhi. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, as well as the Channel Islands. ...

. While being the CPO of

, he launched the Wynk music app. In 2015, he left Bharti airtel and then he joined as the CPO of

. In 2016, he resigned from Snapdeal. In 2016, he joined as the Director of Platform Partnerships for

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Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...

. He worked at Facebook for three years and left at 2019. He was the executive vice president of product management at Five9. In 2022, he joined General Catalyst as a partner and investor.

Awards

* Fortune 40 under 40 in 2016 *

Young Global Leader Forum of Young Global Leaders, or Young Global Leaders (YGL), is a non-profit organization. The organization was created by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum and is managed from Geneva, Switzerland, under the supervision of the Sw ...

in 2010 by World Economic Forum

References

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