Anand Rao is a principal with PwC’s US Advisory practice, with over 24 years of industry and consulting experience, helping senior executives structure, solve, and manage critical issues facing their organizations. He has worked extensively on business, technology, and analytics issues across a range of industry sectors including financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, aerospace & defense, across US, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Before his consulting career, Anand was the chief research scientist at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, a boutique research and software house.