Anand C.

About Anand C.

As an Executive Technical Product Management Leader, I leverage in-depth expertise in data, AI, Gen AI, and Agentic AI ecosystems to drive innovation and scale. I lead high-performing teams, define and execute strategic product visions, and collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders to deliver multi-million-dollar initiatives that transform businesses. With a sharp focus on accelerating revenue, increasing productivity, and implementing next-generation AI solutions, I thrive at the intersection of technology, strategy, and impact, consistently turning complex challenges into measurable results.Key Achievements Include: Spearheaded the development of Gecko, a secure, self-hosted Gen AI assistant powered by NVIDIA GPUs, serving 30K employees. By architecting the underlying AI tech stack and aligning it with enterprise productivity goals, the initiative is positioned to yield $200M in annual cost savings through >10% uplift in associate efficiency. Orchestrated a 3-month data valuation initiative with the Snowflake sales team, crafting the business case for enterprise data governance while fueling a $15M Snowflake contract to advance a centralized data store and AI/ML strategy for GEICO. Provided expert product management leadership to 10+ development teams supporting the Amazon’s Last Mile system, delivering 100K+ packages from 600 brick-and-mortar stores and 6 brands across the US with a remarkable <5% undeliverable rate and a <2% late package delivery rate. Spearheaded strategic data investments for M365 Test Base product, a $2B Azure service supporting 20K enterprise customers, contributing to GA readiness in October 2021. Steered objectives and key results (OKR) planning, data integrations, and observability for a mission-critical online ML platform, safeguarding against 3k+ risky apps with 95% ML model accuracy. Led a team of 55 ML engineers to create and execute a customer prioritization strategy based on AI business problems, competition, use cases in NLP, image recognition, deep learning, and Azure AI stack capabilities to reconcile AI issues for the Top 100 Cloud AI enterprises and ISVs, totaling 1.5K customers, creating a “Gold Star” customer program adopted by 2 major MSFT divisions.Contact me through this profile if you wish to connect.

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Product Management

   GEICO

   Sep 2023 — Present

   Championed vision & execution of next-gen AI platform to transform GEICO\'s capabilities and position them as an industry leader in AI innovation.• Spearheaded the development of Gecko, a secure, self-hosted Gen AI assistant powered by NVIDIA GPUs, serving 30K employees. By architecting the underlying AI tech stack and aligning it with enterprise productivity goals, the initiative is positioned to yield $200M in annual cost savings through >10% uplift in associate efficiency.• Generated $15M in annual data scientists’ productivity cost savings by deploying an ML model monitoring and evaluation platform with a centralized model performance, data drift and fairness analysis framework with a user feedback loop.• Orchestrated a 3-month data valuation initiative with the Snowflake sales team, crafting the business case for enterprise data governance while fueling a $15M Snowflake contract to advance a centralized data store and AI/ML strategy for GEICO.• Spearheaded the development of vision, roadmap, and requirements for the Data Exchange Platform, establishing governance standards to ingest data sets from 12 data source types, and ~10TB+ data ingestion into Snowflake for analytics and modeling.• Partnered with the engineering department to recruit and hire FAANG engineers, expanding the team from 10 to 40 top-tier engineers in under 12 months, executing high-impact initiatives, ensuring alignment of vision, strategy, and roadmap for AI and platform endeavors, and catapulting a strategic merger with GEICO AI solutions organization.• Distinguished as a valuable leader, fostering a culture of OKRs, performance excellence, accountability, and velocity to drive quality outcomes.

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

  2002

• University of California, Berkeley

  Master's degree, Information and Data Science

• NYU Stern School of Business

  MBA, General Management and Strategy

  2015