Anand Raj

Founder & CEO at InXero

As CEO of InXero, Anand drives the overall strategy, vision, product engineering and execution of the company, ensuring that InXero is a dedicated partner in helping its customers revolutionize the Go-to-Market experience. Anand brings more than 20 years of experience in all areas of product innovation, with significant experience in Tech Go-to-Market ecosystem of vendors, distributors, resellers and other players serving this ecosystm.

Prior to founding InXero, Anand was President of Inventes, a technology solution provider, where he built a technology solution business with key partners such as Dell, IBM, BMC Software, and SAS Institute and achieved profitability with multi-million dollar revenue. Prior to Inventes, Anand was a software architect consultant at Dell. He was part of the team that built Dell’s distribution network for 3rd party fulfillment to rapidly scale distribution partners network, enable the fulfillment of “niche” products from smaller vendors and allow the S&P business to more rapidly onboard partners. The system grew rapidly and resulted in over $30B revenue.

Anand worked at Razorfish, Lante in NY City. He lead Lante’s NY City Office Technology Practice and architected many B2B Marketplaces. Anand has also held software developer positions at AT&T Bell Labs, Johnson Controls and worked as Computer Scientist for Government of India.

Anand is computer scientist by training and received the university Gold Medal for the highest academic achievement. Anand authored the book “Manager’s Certificate in IT Service Management” published by SAS Institute. Anand is an ITIL Master.

Anand believes that in this 4th wave of internet, winning with ecosystem is the key.

Anand is the recipient of India’s Innovator Gold Medal Award by Government of India

In his free time, Anand loves to run, practice yoga and meditation. He believes that great ideas come when we are joyful and have a mission in life to positively contribute in our beautiful world. He lives in Austin with his wife and two kids. Anand volunteers for Project X: School on the Bus.

Links

Previous companies

Johnson Controls logo
AT&T logo
Razorfish logo

Timeline

  • Founder & CEO

    Current role