Anand Akela is a product marketing professional, an entrepreneur, and a fitness enthusiast.
Anand is currently leading Solutions Marketing at Nutanix. Prior to his current role, Anand was the Vice President of Product Marketing at Tricentis.
Earlier Anand worked at AppDynamics, CA, Technologies, Oracle and HP in various product marketing, product management, and engineering roles in the systems management, servers, data center energy efficiency and enterprise software areas. Anand has more than 20 years of experience in product marketing, product management, strategic planning and software development.
Anand received his MBA from The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Pune University in India.
Anand lives in Mountain View, California and loves spending time with his wife and two teenage girls. He also likes running and volunteering for a non-profit organization fostering entrepreneurship.