A native of India and graduate of Stanford University, Anand has significant marketing and entrepreneurial expertise. He co-founded the Silicon Valley company Aeroprise Inc. in 2001. In 2004, MIT recognized Anand as an innovator and named him to the Global Technovators list of 15 innovators. Anand's entrepreneurial efforts have received coverage in BusinessWeek, Business 2.0, rediff.com and Fortune.
Anand's involvement with independent film is somewhat serendipitous - coming from reconnecting with college friend and filmmaker Ray Arthur Wang.