Anand Lal Shimpi

Anand Lal Shimpi was born June 26, 1982 to Indian and Iranian parents. He is currently CEO of the tech website AnandTech, which he started in 1997. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University with a degree in Computer Engineering. AnandTech grew from a small GeoCities website in 1997 to a 50 million page per month publication as of July 2005. Anand is married with no children.

He has been featured in USA Today, 48 Hours, 20/20, and Fortune Magazine and is a regular on G4TV. Recently he was one of the keynote speakers at Computex 2003 as a celebrity speaker to entice show goers to return to Taiwan even in the wake of SARS.

Publications

Shimpi is also the author of the book AnandTech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware (ISBN 0789726262) and has a regular column in CPU Magazine.

External links

*AnandTech
*Computer Power User (CPU) Magazine
*Computex 2003 Keynote Speakers