Anand Chandrasekher

Anand Chandrasekher is a seasoned global, technology, and management executive with a track record for delivering results. He has expertise in global markets and China. As Senior Vice President at Intel Corporation, Chandrasekher held a variety of roles including head of Intel’s mobile business, server and workstation business, world-wide sales organization; and, global marketing. Most recently, he was President of Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. and Vice Chairman of Huaxintong Semiconductor, Inc. (China). He is known for his pioneering efforts on the Intel Centrino™ and Atom™ platforms which helped usher in the modern era of mobility; and, for his work on Intel Xeon™ and Qualcomm’s Centriq™ARM servers.

Chandrasekher presently serves on the board of Avalanche Technology Inc.; is a Founder and board member for DeepSight Technology Inc.; he is a strategic advisor to UPmem, S.A., Tortuga Logic (hardware-based trusted computing company), and, Dimensional Mechanics. He is a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company. He is also Founder and CEO of Aira Technologies Inc. (stealth company focused on machine learning and wireless).

Chandrasekher is a founding board member on Cornell’s College of Computing & Information Sciences; a member of Cornell’s Trustee Council; and, a charter member at The Indus Entrepreneurs. He was CRN’s “Innovator of the year” in 2004 for the Intel Centrino™ platform; and, was cited as one of the “Top 25 CMO’s” in 2014 by Forbes. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the Berkeley Haas School of Business. Chandrasekher received his BE, ME and MBA from Cornell University.