AI’s former CEO. Disney’s first CTO is Character.

Anand jumping ship to Disney comes as a …
Read the full story at The Verge. You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief Tech sector officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Anand comes to Disney from chatbot startup Character. Anand will analysis directly to recently appointed CEO Josh D’Amaro, and he will head up the company’s infrastructure, product, engineering, and data / AI platforms teams.
Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the company as its new CTO.