He knows there is no easy software for sales. Nor is there any quick solution for higher growth in sales. Yet, he has built up a new system with an energetic team to take Intel to a new platform. He has a clear idea about who is his target group and how to reach there. Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekhar and his team are responsible for low power Intel® architecture products, ultra-mobile PC’s and the smart mobile and hand-held market segment. Chandrasekher’s responsibilities include strategic direction, platform planning, design, development, marketing and business management for this segment. Prior to his current assignment, Chandrasekher was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Sales and Marketing Group; in this capacity, he had responsibility for worldwide sales and marketing operations and served Intel’s global customer and market needs.

He has had a long and productive association with Intel, having joined the company in 1988. Chandrasekhar held several key positions at Intel prior to his current assignment as director of the marketing group. He was made Corporate Vice President at Intel in 2003, after having a successful spell as General Manager of Intel's Mobile Platforms Group, guiding his team in planning, development and marketing operations for Intel Centrino, the company's revolutionary technology for mobile computers.

Before that, Chandrasekhar was Vice President, Architecture Group and General Manager, Marketing Group, where he led strategic planning and marketing activities for mobile and desktop computing segment of Intel. In 1997, he established the Workstation Platform Group and managed that unit till 1999. Earlier, between 1995 and 1997, Chandrasekhar was Technical Assistant to Craig Barrett, the current Intel CEO.

Chandrasekhar completed his undergraduate studies in computer science before earning a graduate degree in Engineering from Cornell University. He carried on at Cornell for an MBA at the Johnson Graduate School of Management and continues to be involved in the University's current programme even now. He is also actively involved with the America India Foundation.