Anand Chandrasekaran is the Executive Vice President of Product Management at Five9. He is a recognized product leader and innovator, with 17 years of experience building successful products & leading product organizations. Most recently, he was Director focused on the Messenger Platform at Facebook, leading the growth of the platform to over 250,000 developers with a customer care focus that took the platform from 150 million messages to eight billion messages between businesses and consumers. Anand holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Communications Engineering from PSG College of Technology (India). In 2010, he was named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum.
Building a successful product team is difficult under the best of circumstances. Building one during a pandemic raises the level of difficulty by an order of magnitude. But it’s not impossible. In ...