DGM 35: Eddie Dinel Interview - Making the Most of a Long Tenure

In this podcast, I talk to Vijay Anand, Senior Vice President at Intuit, about his career path.

In his role, Vijay engages with all global product development sites and guides them on the strategies for the future aimed at delivering Intuit’s mission to power prosperity around the world. Vijay also leads Intuit’s Tech Culture initiative with the objective of transforming Intuit into a world-class technology company and is the executive sponsor for the Women in Tech.

During his 10-year tenure, Vijay is credited with building Intuit’s India Development Center in Bangalore where over 1000+ talented employees deliver game-changing innovations across Quickbooks, TurboTax, and Mint and delight millions of customers around the world. Vijay has extended Intuit’s global presence with a new global development center in Israel that is accelerating our journey on AI, Machine Learning and Information Security. Back in 2010, Vijay created a set of tenets called the Global Engineering Principles based on his experiences building successful global product teams. These principles coupled with Vijay’s servant leadership style of management have been the foundation for Intuit’s success in attracting the best talent in the world’s talent hotspots and keeping them highly engaged. As a result, Intuit is consistently ranked as one of India’s Best Companies to Work For by the Great Place to Work Institute and The Economic Times including the #1 ranking in 2017. Intuit is also recognized as an industry leader in India when it comes to Diversity and Inclusion as well as Most Innovative in the Industry.

For his work at Intuit, Vijay received the Bill Campbell Coach’s Award in 2017 and the CEO Leadership Award in 2013. Out and Equal recognized his championship of workplace equality with their Champion Award in 2014. Vijay was also invited to serve on AnitaB.org’s US Board of Trustees in 2015. He serves on the board of technology startups and social ventures in India as well as in the Silicon Valley and actively mentors (and is mentored by) entrepreneurs, women technologists and next-gen talent.

Prior to Intuit, Vijay has built large R&D centers for Sun Microsystems and Oracle in India. Vijay was an entrepreneur for the first 14 years of his career in the US, first at Transarc (acquired by IBM in 1993) and later, NetDynamics (acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998). At Sun, Vijay led the Application Server team and subsequently the e-commerce platform at iPlanet, a Sun-Netscape alliance.

Vijay has a graduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

I got to know Vijay at Sun Microsystems while he was running the large Sun India Research Center. I was building and running teams across multiple sites, with India being my largest. Vijay was always there, supporting me as needed and giving me feedback at each step along the way.

I hope you enjoy!