Chakri Gottemukkala

Cofounder, O9

Search every verified Chakri Gottemukkala interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Chakri Gottemukkala, co-founder and CEO of o9 Solutions, delivered the opening keynote at the company's aim10x digital event in April 2025, where he discussed the role of artificial intelligence in enterprise management. He stated that at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, "AI was in the air" and that CEOs were "very clear that it's going to have a major and transformative impact on every process and function of their businesses." Gottemukkala argued that "dysfunctional and process silos" cause decisions to be "too slow, suboptimal, and poorly synchronized" and that AI-powered platforms can address this by ingesting digitized knowledge. He predicted that "enterprises of the future will compete against each other based on the quality of the digital knowledge models driving their processes" and urged executives to "prioritize AI powered transformation of your management systems." In a 2021 interview, Gottemukkala discussed o9 Solutions' growth, noting that the company had "acquired clients like Walmart, GE, Google, Starbucks, Nike and Estée Lauder." He attributed the company's success to the "pedigree of the o9 team" — whose founders had previously worked at a supply chain software firm in the 1990s and 2000s — and to the platform's differentiation from competitors such as JDA, Oracle, and SAP. He stated that o9 was founded with the mission of "creating huge value for enterprises by building next-generation planning software that aligns demand and supply in real time, drives down inventories, reduces waste and makes organizations much better utilizers of the Earth's resources."