Anand Tawker

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Anand Tawker is an independent business consultant specializing in Emerging Markets, with a particular focus on India, and US-India partnerships. In a career spanning over twenty years he has straddled the US and Asia Pacific business environments in a variety of leadership roles in both geographies for companies like HP, IBM and Wipro.

Most recently Anand was the General Manager for country initiatives in the Asia and Pacific region of the Emerging Markets Solutions (EMS), e-Inclusion group of Hewlett-Packard. He was the executive responsible for new business creation in Emerging Markets, and owned the development and execution of HP’s strategy to address underserved segments in the region.

In prior roles at HP, Anand led teams responsible for the post sale consumer experience, as well as Retail Operations in North America. He also led the Supplies Business in Asia Pacific based out of Singapore, before driving the international business development activities for the Inkjet Supplies Business from Corvallis, Oregon. Anand was responsible for starting up the operations of IBM in Chennai, India. Before then, he had served in a variety of leadership positions in Sales and Marketing with Wipro.

Anand currently serves on the board of directors of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation. He has also served as a guest faculty for the MBA programs of the University Of Oregon and the Consortium Executive MBA program.

Anand is a graduate of the Asian Institute Of Management, where he was a AIM Alumni scholar, and also has degrees in Physics and Electronics Engineering.