Executive

Karandeep Anand

DisneySenior EVP and CTO

Karandeep Anand is a consumer-product leader who scaled business products at Meta and later led Brex. At Character.AI, he is steering the platform from chatbots toward interactive entertainment built around user-created characters, stories, and worlds.

Career & education

Current role

DisneyOct 2026-present

Senior EVP and CTO

Previously

Character.AIMay 2025-2026

Chief Executive Officer

Brex2022-2025

President and Chief Product Officer

Meta2015-2021

Product and business leader

Education

IIIT Hyderabad

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Updates 1

MoveKarandeep Anand to join Disney as chief technology officer

The Character.AI CEO will become Disney's Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer on October 2, leading technology, data and AI across the company.

September 18, 2026

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