The Walt Disney Company Names Karandeep Anand to Newly Created Role of Chief Technology Officer
Disney named Karandeep Anand as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, a newly created position effective October 2, reporting directly to CEO Josh D'Amaro. Anand joins from Character.AI, where he served as CEO; his background includes President and Chief Product Officer at Brex, Vice President of Ads & Business Products at Meta's Facebook, and 15 years at Microsoft, where he was part of the team that built Azure. As CTO, Anand will oversee enterprise technology, infrastructure, data and AI platforms, product, and engineering, and a number of Character.AI technical team members are expected to join Disney alongside him.
Key figures
- Prior role
- CEO of Character.AI
- Effective date
- October 2
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