Anand Chandrasekher

Chandrasekher is Founder and CEO of Aira Technologies Inc. – a company that is focused on radically re-imagining wireless communications using AI and machine learning. Chandrasekher is a seasoned global, technology, and management executive with a track record for delivering results. He has expertise in global markets (including China). As Senior Vice President at Intel Corporation, Chandrasekher held a variety of roles including head of Intel’s mobile business, server and workstation business, world-wide sales organization, and, global marketing. Most recently, he was President of Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. and Vice Chairman of Huaxintong Semiconductor, Inc. (China). He is known for his pioneering efforts on the Intel Centrino™ and Atom™ platforms which helped usher in the modern era of mobility; and, for his work on Intel XeonTM and Qualcomm’s Centriq™ ARM servers.

Chandrasekher presently also serves on the board of Avalanche Technology Inc.; and, is a founder and board member at DeepSight Technology Inc.; he was also a strategic advisor to UPmem, S.A. (processor-in-memory company), Cycuity (hardware based trusted computing company), and, Dimensional Mechanics (machine learning automation company). Chandrasekher was also a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company. Chandrasekher is a founding board member on Cornell’s College of Computing & Information Sciences; a member of Cornell’s Trustee Council; and, a charter member at The Indus Entrepreneurs. Chandrasekher was CRN’s “Innovator of the year” in 2004 for the Intel Centrino™ platform; and, was cited as one of the “Top 25 CMO’s” in 2014 by Forbes. He is mentioned in Steve Hamm’s book “The race for perfect”; in Judy Estrin’s book “Closing the innovation gap”, and, Kevin Sharer’s “The CEO test – master the challenges that make or break all leaders”. Chandrasekher has also been a visiting lecturer at the Berkeley Haas School of Business. Chandrasekher received his BE, ME and MBA from Cornell University.