Anand Chhatpar

Current

• CEO at BrainReactions LLC

Past

• Concept Studio, Advanced Concepts & Technology Division at Pitney Bowes Inc
• Concept Studio, Advanced Concepts & Technology Division at Pitney Bowes
• Executive Director at Pyxoft Infotech Pvt. Ltd

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Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Government Polytechnic Mumbai

Recommended

13 people have recommended Anand

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Think Tanks

Websites

• My Company
• My online brainstorming tool
• Innovation Training

Anand Chhatpar’s Summary

Anand is currently the CEO of BrainReactions LLC, a company that utilizes the most creative college students to brainstorm new ideas for Fortune 1000 companies. BrainReactions also trains companies and people on systematic innovation and entrepreneurship via their http://training.brainreactions.com site. Anand is fond of meeting exciting new people and believes that opportunities can be created in any field.

Anand Chhatpar started his first company, Pyxoft Infotech Pvt Ltd. at age 17 in India. In his second year in the US, Anand was involved in his second start-up, OZ Innovations and went on to sell the product internationally in a retail chain of over 72 stores. Anand graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a stellar academic record supplemented by his research in various fields within Computer Engineering. He holds 8 issued U.S. utility patents.

Anand has recently launched an online brainstorming network and idea management software called http://brainreactions.net recently that helps companies brainstorm online with their employees and their customers to build an idea pipeline and seed word-of-mouth marketing.

In October 2005, Anand was named as one of the "Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 25" by Business Week Online:
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/12/25entrepreneurs/index_01.htm
...and also one of Madison's "Top 40 under 40" by In Business Magazine.

In January 2006, Anand was featured on CNBC TV's "Young Turks".

In February 2007, Anand's profile and business were featured as a sucess case study in the second edition of an MBA textbook titled "Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures" by Dr. Bruce Barringer which is used in over 120 US Universities.

In March 2008, Anand received the University of Wisconsin's "Forward Under 40" award that recognizes high achieving young alumni of the UW that are promoting the "Wisconsin Idea" of serving the community and society through their work.

Anand Chhatpar’s Specialties:

Front End of Innovation, Start-Ups, Business Development, Brainstorming, Creativity, Prototyping, Public Speaking, Product Development, Service development

Anand Chhatpar’s Experience

• CEO

  BrainReactions LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)

  July 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)

  Launched a service business focused on innovation generation for corporations. BrainReactions specializes in finding, retaining and brainstorming with a pool of highly creative, diverse and expressive college students to help companies that are in need of ideas for innovative products or services. See http://www.brainreactions.com
  
  Also launched an online brainstorming tool for public and private brainstorms. You can launch a brainstorm, invite friends, rank the ideas, share the ideas and rankings. See http://www.brainreactions.net
  
  Provide Innovation Training at http://training.brainreactions.com

• Concept Studio, Advanced Concepts & Technology Division

  Pitney Bowes Inc

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PBI; Think Tanks industry)

  May 2003 — August 2003 (4 months)

  Developed software and Intellectual Property: 5 issued patents and 2 patents pending.

• Concept Studio, Advanced Concepts & Technology Division

  Pitney Bowes

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PBI; Think Tanks industry)

  May 2002 — August 2002 (4 months)

  Performed ethnographic research and quick prototyping for customer-centric innovation.

• Executive Director

  Pyxoft Infotech Pvt. Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2000 — August 2001 (9 months)

  Launched and Operated Software and Web development business gaining experience in Public relations, Marketing Management and Software Design/Maintenance

Anand Chhatpar’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor of Science , Computer Engineering , September 2001 — May 2005

  Started OZ Innovations during Sophomore year and BrainReactions LLC during Senior year in college.
  Graduated with a Cumulative GPA of 3.978 / 4.0

  Activities and Societies:

  Eta Kappa Nu,
  Founding President: Collaborative Leadership Club (OpenCL.org),
  Researched 4d Cluster Visualization: Parallel Visual Animation,
  Dollmeyer, Martha Helen and George Walker Scholarship, 2004,
  WV Foundation Distinguished Scholarship, 2003,
  Electrical & Computer Engineering Departmental Undergraduate Scholarship, 2003,
  G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Contest, 2003, Fourth place,
  Robert and Elain Pott Foundation Scholarship, 2003,
  Tong Prototype Award 2002,

• Government Polytechnic Mumbai

  Diploma in Computer Engineering , Software Applications , June 1997 — May 2000

  Ranked 1st in college: Roll of Honor

Additional Information

Anand Chhatpar’s Websites:

• My Company
• My online brainstorming tool
• Innovation Training

Anand Chhatpar’s Interests:

Helping big companies with breakthrough and disruptive innovation. Creativity and inventing, Helicopters, chocolates, technology, business start-ups, PR, philosophy of science, art jewelry, everything

Anand Chhatpar’s Groups:

Eta Kappa Nu, linked in

•    Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
•    Obama for America
•    SHiFT! - TURN PROSPECTS INTO CUSTOMERS by Harnessing Trigger Events
•    Wisconsin Alumni Association
•    ENTREPRENEURS-GET FUNDED
•    University of Wisconsin-Madison Badgers In Retail
•    CNBC Young Turks
•    Executive Roundtable
•    Indian Foreign Policy

Anand Chhatpar’s Honors:

Named "Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 25" by Business Week Online:
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/12/25entrepreneurs/index_01.htm?chan=sb

U.S. Patents:
7,176,900 Method and apparatus for field programming radio frequency identification devices
7,042,336 Methods for field programming radio frequency identification devices that control remote control devices
6,869,021 Method for field programming radio frequency identification labels
6,869,020 Method for field programmable radio frequency identification testing devices for transmitting user selected data
6,840,444 Method for field programming radio frequency identification return forms
6,805,291 Method for field programmable radio frequency document identification devices

Anand Chhatpar’s Contact Settings

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