
The AWS Founder’s Table is a premium series featuring some of India’s leading businesses that are driving growth at scale with technology. In the first episode, meet Sachin Chawla, Head - Digital Native Business for India and South Asia at Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd (AISPL) in conversation with Anand Chandrasekaran, Founder and CTO of Mad Street Den, to know how technologies like AI, ML and the Cloud are solving key business problems in the retail industry and enabling growth.
Anand Chandrasekaran is the Founder and CTO of Mad Street Den, a Computer Vision-based Artificial Intelligence company. At MSD, Anand and his team have been working on a proprietary framework for intelligent agents that power a range of applications for industries across the globe. From retail to healthcare, MSD has been instrumental in bringing about intelligent automation. With a body of experience that includes work with IBM, DARPA, Stanford and more, Anand is one of the few in the world with a combination of Biology (Neuroscience), Hardware (Neuromorphic Engineering) and Software (AI systems). Anand’s experience and expertise span a wide range of areas including medicine, healthcare and diagnostics using AI, scientific research on mammalian brains, hardware and software expertise in building brains to defense-related applications.
Sachin currently leads the Digital Native Segment for India and South Asia at Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd. He has more than 17 years of industry experience in business development and sales leadership roles across global software, hardware, Cloud and IT service-related businesses. A veteran in sales and business development, Sachin has special expertise in building top-performing teams to create new markets for organizations.