Anil Moolchandani

Vice President, Product Management and Marketing

SanDisk

Sep 2019 - Current (7 years)

In my role at Sandisk, I spearhead the product management and marketing for AI solutions and SSDs. I am responsible for defining go-to-market strategies and ensuring product-market fit through close collaboration with customers. My focus is on scaling the business and building a strong product management team to bring groundbreaking products to market effectively

Senior Director, Product Development/Technical Program management

Western Digital

Apr 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year 6 months)

As the core team leader of the Client and Enterprise/Datacenter team, provide day-to-day decision making and leadership for product development. Lead product development from concept through various stages of development, validation to product launch. Responsible for strategic planning and execution of multiple wide-ranging engineering programs concurrently. Collaborate with cross-functional team leaders across engineering, product management, operations, and finance to resolve challenges and launch products at scale that are the industry first. Develop KPI metrics and conduct periodic program reviews to assess major blocking issues, risks, and provide recommendations for improvements based on those metrics. Report on metrics and provide a

Core Team Lead and Director of Technical Program Management

Western Digital

Jun 2017 - Sep 2019 (2 years 4 months)

Responsible for portfolio and program management of storage devices targeting PC and Enterprise/Datacenter segments generating more than a billion dollars in annual revenue. Drove execution of NPI programs from initial concept through the complete product lifecycle. Ensured program targets and milestones were met while maintaining quality and ensuring budgets were not exceeded. Provided business insights and strategically revamped product roadmap in collaboration with product management and engineering considering the competitive positioning of products. Led development of PC and datacenter storage programs, as part of this initiative, developed and maintained strategic partnerships with external vendors and internal teams. Improved plann

Director, Technical Program Management

SanDisk

Mar 2014 - Jun 2017 (3 years 4 months)

Directed program execution to meet performance targets and project milestones, while maintaining quality and cost targets. Provided regular communication on program status and key metrics to executive staff and cross-functional teams. Developed and maintained strategic partnerships with system, silicon, software and ODM partners. These partnerships enabled SanDisk to develop and commercialize custom SSD solutions for client storage and hyperscale markets.

Director Of ASIC Design Engineering

SanDisk

Mar 2011 - Mar 2014 (3 years 1 month)

Oversaw day-to-day operations of worldwide design engineering teams of over 50 full-time engineers and contractors spread across US, Israel and India. Responsible for successful and timely tapeout of 30 silicon devices at multiple silicon fabs and process technologies. Responsible for Synthesis, DFT, IP integration, Analog integration, Physical implementation and tapeout activities. Started design team in India to meet the growing needs of engineering organization. Hired and trained high-quality talent in India. Led a team that spearheaded development of custom silicon. As part of this initiative, developed the design infrastructure, RTL2GDS flow, CAD and design tool flow to support next-generation designs. Developed test silicon to vali

Senior Manager of Physical Design

SanDisk

Mar 2009 - Mar 2011 (2 years 1 month)

Championed new design ideas to reduce power consumption of mobile storage solutions by 60 percent, resulting in a six-fold increase in product line revenue and improving battery life for mobile products using SanDisk Corporation solutions. Initiated integration of acquired team in Israel, resulting in a common design flow and tools being used across sites. The resulting efficiencies ensured efficient utilization of engineering resources across sites and reduced annual CAPEX spending by 10 percent.

Manager of Physical Design

SanDisk

Mar 2007 - Mar 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Internalized design activity, started an engineering design team in the US, hired and mentored the team. Grew the team to over 10 engineers in two years. Contributed to cross functional team efforts on product cost reduction, this resulted in a 10 percent cost reduction on products that shipped over 100 million units annually.

Sr Staff Engineer

SanDisk

Nov 2005 - Mar 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Led outsourcing of designs to third-party service providers. Responsible for vendor selection. Worked with legal and procurement teams to structure contracts. Managed internal engineering teams deliveries and receivables. Met project milestones while staying within budget. Responsible for design for SanDisk Corporation’s flash memory controllers. These controllers went into mass volume production and were extensively used across product lines comprising over eighty percent of SanDisk’s revenues.

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Co-Founder/Engineering Leader

Garuda Networks

Nov 1999 - Nov 2002 (3 years 1 month)

Co-founded a networking startup focused on converged broadband equipment. Raised seed and Series A & B rounds of funding from leading Venture Capital firms and strategic investors. Collaborated on system architecture details and engineering leader of FPGA and ASIC development.

Staff Sales Application Consultant

Synopsys

Dec 1997 - Nov 2005 (8 years)

Received Synopsys Outstanding Contribution Award for FY2004. This award is given to the Applications Consultant who has made a significant contribution to customer success and financial success of Synopsys. As part of the Sales team, grew install base of products in existing accounts by demonstrating value of the solution over competition. Developed a campaign to displace competition in account base, rolled out the campaign and won several multi-million dollar deals, over three year period grew revenue five-fold. Major design wins achieved at Apple Computers, Nvidia, Sun Microsystems, Redback Networks, ATI, HP and SanDisk Corporation.

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