Dream Sports appoints Anantha Sundararajan as its first CDO

Dream Sports has announced the appointment of Anantha Sundararajan, Ph.D., as their Chief Data Officer (CDO). Anantha will be responsible for making significant leaps in fan experience, engagement and trust, powered by cutting edge AI, ML, Data Science,Decision Science and Data Engineering for Dream Sports’ growing user base of 140 Million sports fans across all its portfolio companies. Anantha will oversee the creation and utilisation of data led assets, products and capabilities through technology innovations across the Dream Sports ecosystem.

Anantha joins Dream Sports from Novartis, where as Head DSAI & CDO, he played a key role in making Data Science & AI as part of the overarching competitive strategy for Novartisbybringingbreakthroughinnovationstranscendingmultipleareassuchas Research,DrugDiscoveryandDevelopment,Portfolio Optimization, Operations, Drug Launch, Brand Strategy and Marketing. Anantha brings close to 25 years of experience spanningbothacademicandcorporate professions. He holds a doctorate and MS in Industrial Engineering and Mathematics from Purdue University, USA.

He is a seasoned leader in the AI and Data Science space and has championed strategic use of data across diverse industries such as Aerospace, Banking, E-Commerce and Pharma. Commenting on the appointment,Harsh Jain, CEO & Co-Founder, Dream11 & Dream Sportssaid,“As a pure-play sports tech company, where data drives all our decisions, we are delighted to have Anantha onboard to formulate and drive our AI and Data vision.

His deep expertise will help us further evolve our cutting-edge data led innovations for superiorandpersonalisedfanengagement.WeareconfidentthatunderAnantha’s leadership,DreamSportswillcontinuetochampionthehigheststandardsofuser experience and help Indian and global sports fans engage even morewith their favourite sports.”

Anantha Sundararajan, Chief Data Officeradded, “This is a very exciting time for the sportstechnologysectorinIndia,wherecompanieslikeDreamSportswiththeir data-centric approach offer a differentiated fan experience to make sports better. I look forward to being a part of this incredible journey of Dream Sports to bring the ultimate
experience to fans at speed, scale and consistency working collaboratively with all of the Dream Sports group of companies.”