Raj Anand


Raj Anand is a Brighton-based web entrepreneur. He was one of eighteen Young Entrepreneurs in Europe profiled by BusinessWeek in 2007. He is also the ambassador for the Enterprise UK campaign. Anand was the founder and operations director at social network service provider Kwiqq and author of Social Media's Impact on Recruitment and HR.

Personal life

Rajeshwar Singh Anand was born in Kuwait and grew up mainly in Kuwait, India and UK.

Early life and now

Anand has a bachelor's degree in computer system engineering and Master of Research in Computer science and Artificial intelligence from University of Sussex. He was one of six entrepreneurs chosen by the panel and won Government funding to take a short Master of Business Administration course at Cranfield University. A Brighton-based investor, David Hill, provided the funding for Anand's first business, Kwiqq, which he launched at the age of 23. Anand has spoken at the British Library and Foreign and Commonwealth Office in support of entrepreneurship and the MakeYourMark campaign, and is also the creator of SUE, Sussex University Entrepreneurs.
He now is the founder and CEO of a content writing services company, Goodman Lantern.