Sanjiv Sidhu

Sanjiv Sidhu
BornJune 1957 (age 69)
Hyderabad, India
OccupationChairman of o9 Solutions
Known forFounder of i2 Technologies, o9 Solutions

Sanjiv Sidhu (born June 1957) is an Indian-American software entrepreneur. He is known for founding i2 Technologies, a supply chain management software company, and o9 Solutions, a business management platform for multinational corporations.

Early life and education

Sidhu was born in Hyderabad, India in 1957.[1] His father was a chemist who oversaw India’s national laboratories.[1] In his early years, Sidhu was a member of the national sailing team.[1]

Sidhu graduated from Osmania University, earning a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering.[1] He then moved to the United States and attended Oklahoma State University, earning a master of science degree in chemical engineering in 1980.[1] Sidhu also completed doctorate work in systems and control engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.[1]

Career

Sidhu took a job at Texas Instruments’ artificial intelligence laboratory in Dallas, where he designed computer software that used advanced simulation techniques to assist TI planners’ management of their production processes.[1]

i2 Technologies

He co-founded i2 Technologies, which specialized in supply chain management, with Ken Sharma in 1988 after Sidhu left his role at Texas Instruments.[1][2][3] The company’s initial software product offerings were Factory Planner, which optimized material flow, and Rhythm, i2’s supply chain management software.[1]

i2 Technologies went public in 1996,[4] and Sidhu's personal stake in i2 hit a high of $6.5 billion; Forbes listed him as the 109th richest person in the world in 2001.[5]

Sidhu left i2’s management in 2005 as well as the company’s board in 2009. In 2010, JDA Software Group acquired i2 for $604 million.[4][2]

o9 Solutions

In 2009, he co-founded o9 Solutions, a business management platform designed to run on public cloud providers, with former i2 colleague Chakri Gottemukkala.[4][3][6] The company’s mPower software features an AI-powered planning platform dubbed “The Digital Brain”, which uses “analytics and data to transform siloed planning into integrated and intelligent decision-making”.[4][2][6]

The company reached unicorn status in 2020.[2] In 2022, o9 Solutions raised $295 million in funding, valuing the company at $2.7 billion.[2][3] In 2023, o9 added another billion to its valuation with a $116 million Series C financing round.[2] The company has included on Inc.’s 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies for seven consecutive years.[2][7]

References

  • What's the Big Idea?: Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking By Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak, H.
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Kathryn Jones. "Business: Sanjiv Sidhu". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Quincy Preston (16 November 2023). "How Dallas' o9 Solutions Built a Multi-Billion-Dollar Digital Brain". Dallas Innovates. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 Kyle Wiggers (26 January 2022). "o9 Solutions raises $295M to apply analytics to the supply chain and beyond". Venture Beat. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Thomas Korosec (7 January 2015). "Sanjiv Sidhu: Software Savant". D Magazine. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  5. ↑ "Sanjiv S. Sidhu Rankings - Forbes.com". people.forbes.com. Archived from the original on 17 March 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  6. 1 2 Isaac Taylor; Ted Bunker (19 July 2023). "Backers Raise Ante for Supply-Chain Software Maker o9". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
  7. ↑ "Inc. 5000 2024". Inc. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
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