Anand Chandrasekaran All Set to Join Facebook to Revamp Messenger Application


BENGALURU: Facebook hired ex-yahoo, executive Anand Chandrasekaran on a strategic role to boost future anticipations of the Messenger application. The social networking giant appointed Chandrasekaran for a global leadership role to expand its services further in India. The move will build new partnerships and strategies for the Messenger app that has hit over one billion user account. As reported by The Business Insider website, Anand Chandrasekaran will assist social media company in building strategies for Facebook Messenger.

Anand worked at Yahoo from 2011 to 2014 as a Senior Director for search products and mobile products. Later he joined Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel as a Chief Product Officer and helped the company spread its service with music and mobile payment platforms. Later he joined Snapdeal, the Indian e-commerce company as the Chief Product Officer. Anand helped Snapdeal by launching a revamped website and app that introduced the image search feature. Chandrasekaran played a big role in acquiring Freecharge and merging it with Snapdeal at $400 million.

Chandrasekaran completed his undergraduate degree in India and MS from Stanford University. After graduating, he co-founded a mobile application software company, Aeroprise, which was further acquired by BMC software in 2011. Before joining Airtel, he spent about 13 years with various technological firms like Openwave systems, Yodlee and Yahoo in the Silicon Valley. The World Economic Forum awarded Chandrasekaran as the Young Global Leader. Anand notified about joining the Social media giant through a Facebook post. He will join Facebook’s Menlo Park office.

Facebook Messenger has a download count of more than one billion, which makes it second most popular Android and iOS application. The app currently has 10 percent of VoIP market share. Facebook is continuously working to make its app user-friendly and with the launch of bots for Messenger, it will further allow businesses to automate responses.

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