Executive Profiles

Vijay Anand is responsible for leading the Intuit India Development Center (IDC). In this role Anand is responsible for formulating the vision and strategy for IDC to become one of Intuit’s premier development centers worldwide and support Intuit’s quest to be a premier innovative growth company.

The strategy that Anand has articulated has three key elements — First, build a center of renown by hiring and developing world class technical talent that is skilled in the unique Intuit approach of customer driven innovation and design for delight. Second, perform world class engineering and deliver global products reliably and with high quality that delights millions of customers. Finally, leverage the proximity to the biggest emerging markets in the world by innovating new products that address unmet need and grow the business.

Prior to Intuit, Vijay Anand was a leader in the enterprise software industry having led successful product teams and engineering centers for Oracle and Sun Microsystems in India and the US. Anand brought together a strong development team across three locations in India to deliver major innovations into Oracle’s Fusion strategy that has positioned Oracle as the market leader in enterprise middleware and applications. Earlier, Anand led the growth and development of Sun Microsystems' R&D center that developed deep competencies across Sun’s product lines including Java Software, Storage and Server. The R&D center grew into the largest for Sun outside the US and the only one to integrate the three key competencies into one location. At Sun and Oracle, Anand pioneered a partnership approach that positioned the development center to leverage product and technology expertise and work closely with the local field organizations and industry partners to grow the business in the region. He is a member of several industry and technical organizations including TiE and NASSCOM here in India and the Association of Computing Machinery in the US. Anand is a regular featured speaker at conferences here in India including developer events such as Oracle Open World and the Sun Microsystems Tech Days events in India.

Prior to his move to India, Anand was based in the US for over 14 years that included engineering leadership roles for the e-commerce product line at iPlanet, a Sun Netscape alliance, Architect for NetDynamics, an industry leading Java application server product that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998 for $180 Million and earlier as a technical leader at IBM developing components that are now the underpinnings of the industry leading Websphere Application Server.

Anand has masters degrees from the University of Arizona in Computer Science and from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in Mechanical Engineering. Anand and his wife Geetha along with their two children reside in the classical neighborhood of Malleshwaram in Bangalore.