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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Sanjiv Sidhu<br />
| image = Sanjiv Sidhu 2015 Cropped.jpg<br />
| caption = Sidhu circa 2015<br />
| birth_date = June, 1957<br />
| birth_place = [[Hyderabad, India]]<br />
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'''Sanjiv Sidhu''' (born June 1957, in [[Hyderabad, India]]) is a software entrepreneur known for founding [[i2 Technologies]], a [[supply chain management software]] company, and ''o9 Solutions'', a Dallas, Texas-based company which offers a decision management platform for multinational corporations.<ref>http://o9solutions.com/</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
===Education===<br />
In 1980, Sidhu graduated from [[Osmania University]], 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.<br />
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===Career===<br />
Sidhu founded and served as chairman of [[i2 Technologies]] which specialized in 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|Goldratt Institute]], with whom he worked at Texas Instruments. Their initial product was known as '''Factory Planner'''.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}<br />
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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.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20090317213707/http://people.forbes.com/rankings/sanjiv-s-sidhu/42339</ref> 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.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
* What's the Big Idea?: Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking By Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak, H.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.o9solutions.com o9 Solutions - Official Website]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121104051405/http://www.forbes.com/2000/06/27/feat_print.html i2: Ahead of its time]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20151224142608/http://www.version2.me/ Version2 - Official Website]<br />
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