Sanjiv Sidhu
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Sanjiv Sidhu is the founder and chairman of o9 Solutions, a Dallas, Texas
based company that offers financially astute business planning and decision making processes and software to multinational corporations. Mr. Sidhu also founded and was chairman of i2 Technologies
, a supply chain management software and services company.
, Hyderabad, earning a bachelor of science degree in Chemical Engineering. He then moved to the United States and attended Oklahoma State University, earning a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering in 1982. Sidhu also did graduate work in systems and control engineering at Case Western Reserve University
in Cleveland.
Prior to starting o9, Sidhu founded and served as chairman of i2 Technologies
, which revolutionized the field of supply chain management. i2 began in Sidhu's apartment in 1988 after he left his role as an engineer in the artificial intelligence lab at Texas Instruments
where he was researching the feasibility and commercial applicability of a systematic approach to solving complex linear programming models. He was joined by Ken Sharma, formerly of the Goldratt Institute, with whom he worked at Texas Instruments. Their initial product became known as Factory Planner, and is still optimizing production in companies around the world.
i2 Technologies went public in 1996, and at his peak 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. At that point he was considered the richest person of Indian origin in the world. In 2000 Sidhu was awarded the Non-Resident Indian of the Year by the Indian government.
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
based company that offers financially astute business planning and decision making processes and software to multinational corporations. Mr. Sidhu also founded and was chairman of i2 Technologies
I2 Technologies
i2 Technologies was a supply chain management software and services company, founded in 1988 by Sanjiv Sidhu and Ken Sharma in Dallas, Texas...
, a supply chain management software and services company.
Education
In 1980 Sidhu graduated from Osmania UniversityOsmania University
Osmania University , , since 1918, is a public university located in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established and named after the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan. It is one of the oldest modern universities in India. It is the first Indian University to have Urdu and...
, Hyderabad, earning a bachelor of science degree in Chemical Engineering. He then moved to the United States and attended Oklahoma State University, earning a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering in 1982. Sidhu also did graduate work in systems and control engineering at Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...
in Cleveland.
Career
Sidhu has focused his career on helping large organizations consistently achieve superior results via improved planning and execution of plans. Based on the belief that businesses react too slowly to rapidly changing conditions, his concentration has been on helping organizations implement new processes to boost agility and adaptability.Several global corporations have implemented his methodology. With o9 Solutions, Mr. Sidhu is continuing to innovate new methodologies to optimize decision making and provide value to large organizations.Prior to starting o9, Sidhu founded and served as chairman of i2 Technologies
I2 Technologies
i2 Technologies was a supply chain management software and services company, founded in 1988 by Sanjiv Sidhu and Ken Sharma in Dallas, Texas...
, which revolutionized the field of supply chain management. i2 began in Sidhu's apartment in 1988 after he left his role as an engineer in the artificial intelligence lab at Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
where he was researching the feasibility and commercial applicability of a systematic approach to solving complex linear programming models. He was joined by Ken Sharma, formerly of the Goldratt Institute, with whom he worked at Texas Instruments. Their initial product became known as Factory Planner, and is still optimizing production in companies around the world.
i2 Technologies went public in 1996, and at his peak 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. At that point he was considered the richest person of Indian origin in the world. In 2000 Sidhu was awarded the Non-Resident Indian of the Year by the Indian government.