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• Managing Director, Brilliont

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Anand Sanwal is the former Vice President, Investment Optimization and Strategic Business Analysis, at American Express where he was responsible for building, managing and leading the company's corporate portfolio management effort - widely recognized as the most ambitious corporate portfolio management undertaking at a large corporation. In this role, he also oversaw the CFO's strategic planning group and the company’s inaugural $50MM Chairman’s Innovation Fund.  American Express was recently recognized as the most innovative financial services company by Fortune Magazine for these efforts.      

He is the author of the book Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management: Aligning Investment Proposals with Organizational Strategy which features a foreword by former American Express CFO, Gary Crittenden (now CFO of Citigroup) and is currently a Managing Director at Brilliont.  He is a recognized thought leader on corporate portfolio management and innovation speaking frequently to research organizations including CFO Magazine, the Beyond Budgeting Round Table, CFO Executive Board, Corporate Portfolio Management Association, and Gartner amongst others. He has also worked with leading pharma, high-tech, healthcare, financial services and public sector institutions to assist them in bringing corporate portfolio management and innovation disciplines to their organizations.  Previous to his current role at Brilliont and his work at American Express, he worked in venture capital.  He also worked oversees in London for an internet company and prior to that was based in Mumbai, India and Shanghai, China as a strategy/operations consultant for a mid-size chemical firm.  He graduated from the prestigious Fisher Program in Management & Technology with a degree from the Wharton School of Business with in Finance and Accounting and also a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.  Thoughts and additional discussion on corporate portfolio management, innovation, reengineering and corporate stupidity are found at his Investile Dysfunction blog.  He can be reached at asanwal @ brilliont.com.

 

Areas of expertise

innovation, corporate portfolio management, project portfolio management, IT portfolio management

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http://brilliont.com/blogs/id/

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www.fastcompany.com/user/98797

Professional History

Managing Director, Brilliont

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