Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom service operator, today announced the appointment of Anand Chandrasekaran as its Chief Product Officer for its India operations. Anand will lead product conceptualization, design and development across the B2C segment of the company and will report into Srini Gopalan, Director – Consumer Business.

He will be responsible for driving best in class user interfaces, content partnerships and product experiences across all current and future offerings across the internet ecosystem.

Anand joins Airtel from Yahoo where he was sr. Director of Global Search Products and a member of the search leadership team.

“Airtel has always attracted top global talent. We are delighted to have Anand on board as we sharpen our focus on innovation. I am confident that his rich experience and in-depth understanding of technology and the internet ecosystem will contribute to our endeavor of building an organization of the future,” said, Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO, Bharti Airtel (India & South Asia).

                           

Anand is a proven entrepreneur with experience of leading product development, growth and revenue in mobile, consumer internet, search, maps, local and big data across numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to Yahoo, Anand was Director of Product Management at Openwave. Anand also co-founded and helped build Aeroprise Inc. before joining Openwave. Under Anand’s leadership, Aeroprise personalization solutions for the enterprise became the most-deployed mobility product worldwide for service management.

Anand has also served as Venture Advisor at Storm Ventures, a $500M VC firm and has been an advisor to many private companies.

In 2010, Anand was named by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, a community of outstanding leaders committed to impacting the future.