Vijay Anand

Current

Advisor at Proto.in
Advisor at The Startup Guy
Manager (Incubation and New Ventures) at RTBI (IITM's Rural Technology and Business Incubator)

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Past

Founder and Curator at Proto.in
Product & Strategic Alliances Manager at NEXGE Technologies
Founder CEO at LeadStep Technologies Inc., Canada

Consultant/Employee at Various

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Vijay Anand’s Summary

Recognized as a serial entrepreneur, an initiator of Ideas, driving innovation and enabling networks to deliver.

Passionate about technology, grounded with the reality of business and the crucial elements required to build a lasting enterprise, with a good sense for details to ensure quality execution of visions and actionable items that come out of brainstorming meets.

The greatest passion is to work with entrepreneurs, as being easy to identify with passionate and capable people, contributing and most times learning much from those interactions.

• Posess the experience in bootstrapping a few companies and initiatives, which proves to be quite valuable while assessing the stage of a company or team, and the potential for them to grow.

• Identifying talent and putting together teams that can master obstacles, and can deliver on the vision.

• Strategic alliances management, in working with ecosystem partners, understanding their needs and requirements and in making the relationship successful.

• Naturalistic networking persona in staying in touch with a larger pool of knowledge and industry experience

Technology:
• Well-versed with the technological trends of the industry, in keeping up with them and in identifying venture/investment opportunities for the future.

• Key Areas: Mobile, Telecom, Internet, Web, Software

Vijay Anand’s Specialties:

Strengths:
Venture Bootstrapping • Strategic Planning and market positioning • Fund raising • Entrepreneur Mentorship • Industry Depth and trend analysis • Project Management • Crisis Control • Strategic Planning • Mass Communication and PR, mobilizing Market traction •

Vijay Anand’s Experience

Advisor

Proto.in

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)
Advisor

The Startup Guy

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Advisor/Mentor to some of the Promising Startups Emerging in the Indian Startup Space.
Manager (Incubation and New Ventures)

RTBI (IITM's Rural Technology and Business Incubator)

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

As one of the first employees of this organization, it has been a thrill ride so far in finalizing the concept, the boundaries and process flow in terms of operations.

Responsible for Identifying the trends, needs and requirements of the industry, market and the end consumer and in identifying opportunities ahead of the curve to make strategic investments in grooming new businesses in that sector. Responsible for leading the technological teams in terms of new initiatives, keeping up with the interests of the ecosystem partners and in delivering satisfactory results.

Responsible for the initiation, ideation and process flow of the Incubation process within the Incubator to bring out quality ventures within a stipulated timeframe with constraints of time and resources. Involved as the mentor of certain teams and prospective startup companies.
Founder and Curator

Proto.in

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

September 2006 — June 2009 (2 years 10 months)

Proto.in is the platform for young startups and entrepreneurs to showcase their grandiose visions and innovations to an audience that really matters - investors, technologists, veteran entrepreneurs, journalists, bloggers and executives.

Entrepreneurs drive the economy. It is the grand visions and resourcefulness of an entrepreneur that utilizes the society to the maximum, creates opportunities and pushes technology to its limits to create a better lifestyle - be it an enterprise or an end-consumer. Proto.in is a platform derived to support, help and nurture such visionaries.

Proto.in comes together once in six months in a city across the Indian subcontinent ever since its inception in the January of 2007.

Currently serving on the team on an Advisory Capacity, while the 100+ volunteering team manages the showcase event.
Product & Strategic Alliances Manager

NEXGE Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2006 — October 2006 (10 months)

Responsible for identifying and evaluating the opportunities in the Telecom market (current needs and market opportunities in the VoIP/IMS Domain) and driving the product decisions about the future direction of the NEXGE solution. Also responsible to drive the product related communications internally and externally to NEXGE. Required to work closely with the Sales force, Channels, Marketing and Engineering organizations. Through close interaction with the field, channels and customers, understands the commercial drivers for specific features, define the high level requirements of those features, and determine feature phasing over coming releases. Responsibilities span the entire product life cycle from concept through development, launch, growth and succession. Specific responsibilities include driving decisions on Pricing, Positioning, Promotion, Product codes, bundling of components, and launch.
Founder CEO

LeadStep Technologies Inc., Canada

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

2003 — 2006 (3 years )

LeadStep focuses on building wireless solutions for both carriers and consumers in an attempt to revolutionize the way people live, act and think. We pride ourselves in solutions that are powerful, yet simple and in products that don't make the end user feel inadequate, but empowers them to bring out the best.

Focus Sectors: Content and Media Delivery Systems, Location-Based Services
Consultant/Employee

Various

(Wireless industry)

1996 — 2005 (9 years )