Anjali is an experienced technology and product leader and professional director with more than 30 years of experience in engineering and product management. She currently serves on the boards of Persistent Systems, a software services company, Xero, a provider of cloud based accounting software and Loconav, a Sequoia funded private company in the fleet management space. Previously she was on the boards of Lattice Semiconductor, Alteryx, Mcclatchy Inc, MobileIron, and Iteris. She holds advisory positions at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, the National AI Institute for Exceptional Education at SUNY Buffalo, and Insight Partners in New York.
Until 2019, Anjali was Vice President of Product Management at Google, where she led the product teams for Search, Maps, Translate, News, Research and Global Infrastructure. Prior to Google, Anjali was executive vice president of engineering for Covad Communications, Inc., a company providing voice and data communications products and services to consumers and businesses. Before that, she held positions at AT&T Bell Labs, working in the areas of communications and high-speed data.
She received her Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the State University of New York, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur. She also completed the Executive Education Program in Medicine at Harvard University. In 2017,IIT Kanpur conferred upon her the prestigious Distinguished Alumnus Award 2017.
