Hitesh Anand

Hitesh Anand is Chief Product Officer & President at Mobikon, North America, where he leads the product strategy, product management, marketing, design, and developer experience teams. Prior to this role, Hitesh was Vice President of Product (Digital Services, Connected Devices & Mobile) at VeriFone, where he built cloud, mobile, and connected/IoT services and platform offerings from the ground-up.

There, Hitesh also led Verifone’s mobile wallet strategy & implementation, partnering with players such as Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, AliPay, and more. Mr. Anand also productized & launched Verifone Carbon, a Connected Smart Terminal that integrates the payment terminal & an Android POS platform in a single device, creating a comprehensive solution for running a business.

Prior to Verifone, Mr. Anand was Chief Product Officer, heading the departments of Digital & Mobile Payments and Citi Enterprise Payments at Citi. There, he partnered with Apple, Visa, & MasterCard to productize Citi’s implementation of Apple Pay. He also launched the 3 Citi Waller, Citi’s first NFC Wallet in Asia.

Hitesh held multiple management positions and a directorial position at Nokia, where he grew their tech and product strategies and was a founder of their internal start-up, Nokia Money, to bring about mobile payments, banking, and financial services. They were a Neobank and the 3rd largest mobile wallet globally at the time.

Mr. Anand has a B. Tech. in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev University, as well as a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State

University. He also has an M.B.A from the Duke University Fuqua School of Business, with an emphasis on Strategy, Finance & Entrepreneurship.