PRADEEP ANAND is a consultant at Preng & Associates, the premier energy executive search specialists, with offices in Houston, London, and Moscow.

He has 25+ years of marketing and business strategy/execution experience in the oil & gas, technology, and engineering industries. In 1994, he founded his marketing/strategy consulting practice, focused on rapid turnaround and growth of businesses.

He was Vice-President, Marketing at Landmark Graphics, a Houston-based oil & gas software company - currently a division of Halliburton. Before that he was Manager, North American Operations at a division of Baker Hughes and the first marketing/business development manager for LWD/MWD at Sperry-Sun (now a Halliburton subsidiary). He was a Co-Founder, President & COO of PointCross, Inc., a technology startup.

He speaks at business conferences and at firms (Click for Speaker Bio), and has published (Click for Articles) extensively in leading industry magazines and journals.

He serves on the Advisory Board of the Houston Technology Center, and on the boards of Fort Bend Education Foundation, Pratham USA, and IIT Bombay Heritage Fund. He is Chairman Emeritus of the IIT Alumni of Greater Houston.

He received his MBA from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas; and his BS in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India. In 2001, he received a Distinguished Service Award from IIT Bombay.

He recently published his new novel An Indian in Cowboy Country.