Anand joined ICANN in August 2008 and serves as Technical Project Manager providing project leadership and guidance on a variety of technical projects involving cross-functional teams. Anand brings over 17 years of proven Project Management experience, Enterprise Architecture and Technical Leadership in Information Systems for automotive, eCommerce / B2B, energy and health care industries. He has extensive experience in managing complete software project life cycle and implementing custom solutions & packages. He is PMI certified PMP, IBM's certified RUP process specialist and Microsoft certified .NET solution developer (MCSD) with a Bachelor of Engineering from BIT, Sindri, India and Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Jaipur, India.

He is also fluent in a few languages such as Hindi, Urdu and has some knowledge of Bengali. He loves to travel, read and keep up with current affairs. He is also pursuing an Advance certification in program management from Stanford University.