Anand Chandrasekaran joins Snapdeal as Chief Product Officer from Airtel


Anand Chandrasekaran

Last month there were reports that Anand Chandrasekaran, Chief Product Officer at Bharti Airtel has put his papers. Today Snapdeal has announced that it has appointed Anand Chandrasekaran as Chief Product Officer. He has over 15 years’ experience in delivering products and revenue in mobile, search content and big data.

He was responsible for product conceptualization, design and delivery as well as driving strategic technology partnerships, driving product strategy and roadmap for Wynk Music, Airtel Money, API products etc. as well as product and operations for Airtel Online, an e-commerce service, and MyAirtel app with over 28 million monthly users and over US$ 1 billion in annual GMV, as Chief Product Officer at Bharti Airtel.

Before joining Airtel, Anand was Sr. Director of Search Products and member of search leadership as well as Sr. Director for Mobile at Yahoo. Prior to Yahoo, Anand was Director of Product at Openwave driving product management for the mobile mediation gateway which touched 200Mn subscribers (through 70 operators) and generated USD 150Mn in revenue. Earlier, he co-founded Aeroprise Inc.

Commenting on the new appointment, Rohit Bansal Co-Founder, Snapdeal said:

We are very excited to have Anand on-board. He comes with 15 years of rich experience in building world class products for at scale digital businesses. Snapdeal is in a phase of hyper growth and I believe under Anand’s leadership we will set new benchmarks for intuitive and highly engaging products not just within India but globally as well.

Speaking about his move Anand said:

I am truly excited to be a part of the young and dynamic team at Snapdeal. The company’s vision to solve a real and existing challenge in the country – that of access for consumers and of reach for small and medium businesses is very inspiring. I look forward to working towards building a highly scalable, sustainable, innovative and future ready technology platform that will be seen as an example for others to emulate in the years to come.


Author: Srivatsan Sridhar

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