Sachin Anand

Current

• Senior Product Manager at Sony Ericsson

Past

• Head of Product Management at Palgloo
• Product Manager at Motorola
• Equity Research Associate at Bear Stearns & Co.

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Education

• Cathedral School
• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
• Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Twitter Account
• My Blog

Sachin Anand’s Summary

Extensive experience in transforming nascent emerging technologies into viable commercial products.

Technical expertise in diverse telecom and software technologies like wireless, wireline, telephony, networking, and application implementation.

Sachin Anand’s Specialties:

Product Management, Product Planning, Competitive Strategy, Product Roadmaps, Mobile and Web UI Design, Ecosystem Planning, Strategic Partnerships

Sachin Anand’s Experience

• Senior Product Manager

  Sony Ericsson

  (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2009 — Present (10 months)

  Leading cross-platform web development initiatives within Developer & Partner Engagement. Responsbility includes working with partners and developers in defining a cohesive product offering, developing business case, managing software development, managing operations for marketing and launching products.
  
  Rolled out WebSDK for flagship Android based Xperia X10 and Symbian based Satio. Download from developer.sonyericsson.com/websdk and build great device based packaged web applications.

• Head of Product Management

  Palgloo

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 2008 — December 2008 (9 months)

  Silicon valley based Social Networking Start-up with integrated web & mobile features including friend finder and friend match, recommendations, intelligence engine and personalized search enabling easy content discovery.
  
  Working with CEO & leading product management with responsibilities for product discovery, writing specifications, prioritizing features, build consensus and coordinate product schedule for mobile & web based features. Responsible for competitive analysis, product roadmaps, & product strategy.

• Product Manager

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 8 months)

  Product Manager for social networking product - role included conceptualizing, product definition, business requirements, market research and execution.
  
  Worked with partners including Yahoo & Google in enabling new unique experiences on mobile devices.
  
  Product Manager for a product for publishing, viewing and interacting with user generated content on mobile.
  
  Developing technology strategy & conceptualizing new products as part of internal start-ups. Partner with Marketing, Technology, Architecture and Product teams on defining the value proposition and implementing the product concepts.

• Equity Research Associate

  Bear Stearns & Co.

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; BSC; Capital Markets industry)

  May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)

  Technology equity research associate and involved in financial modeling, market sizing of software companies.

Additional Information

Sachin Anand’s Websites:

• My Twitter Account
• My Blog

Sachin Anand’s Interests:

I am very interested in social media & tools for fast development of social applications across web & mobile (Java & Native). Recently developed an innovative social networking application for fun on Orkut as part of weekendapps using Google App Engine (Python) as the server side technology & HTML, CSS, JavaScript (including libraries like JQuery), Google Gadgets and Open Social specification. Would like to connect with people interested in this space. Check it out here at code.google.com/p/prodnv/

Sachin Anand’s Groups:

•    IITKanpurAlumni
•    Olin Business School - Washington University in St. Louis
•    IIT Alumni
•    Wireless Jobs
•    YOUNG INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS
•    iPhone Business for iPhone Developers and Entrepreneurs
•    IIT Kanpur 99 Batch

Sachin Anand’s Honors:

Outstanding employee award from CTO of Motorola Mobile Devices for conceptualizing, product definition, specification, business analysis, competitive analysis, & working with carriers in executing the concept.

Won 'first prize' in Tycoon (Global Business Management Simulation)where MBA students as part of a team purchase and operate firms in the global technology industry. The students are responsible for crafting business strategies and implement those through a complex set of decisions in marketing, finance, supply-chain, operations and accounting.

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