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DALLAS, July 16, 2025 – o9, a leading AI-powered software platform provider for enterprise planning and decision-making, today announced that Brett Theisen has joined its executive leadership team as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). With more than 25 years of sales and leadership experience, Theisen will be responsible for leading o9’s global sales teams to accelerate the Company’s revenue growth and expansion in new and existing markets.
“As o9 continues to transform enterprise planning and execution by raising the bar for intelligence, automation and speed-to-value for our world-class clients, we are excited to welcome Brett to the team at such a momentous point in our growth journey," said Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-Founder and CEO, o9. “Brett’s proven ability to scale complex sales organizations and build ecosystems that drive sustained growth is key to helping us deliver on o9’s founding promise: Enhancing enterprise planning and execution capabilities is the top value-creation driver for any organization navigating in an increasingly volatile and uncertain world.”
Previously, Theisen served as CRO at QAD, a global software company specializing in enterprise resource planning and supply chain solutions for the manufacturing sector. Prior to QAD, Theisen led a large salesforce and significantly increased revenue at NiCE, a publicly traded customer experience and contract center solutions provider. During his tenure, Theisen also spearheaded the development of NiCE’s strategic partnership program. Before that, he held sales leadership roles at Mattersight, Calabrio and Nortel.
“The o9 platform is truly exceptional, demonstrating AI innovation and a clear market advantage,” Theisen said. “This role represents an unparalleled chance to be part of something transformative and to make a significant impact on large organizations that are seeking a boundaryless operating model for optimized, synchronized decision-making. I feel a strong alignment with the o9 executive vision and leadership team, and am eager to contribute to the Company’s growth trajectory.”
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o9 Solutions is a leading Enterprise Knowledge and AI-powered platform helping companies build Agile, Adaptive & Autonomous Planning & Execution Models for transforming enterprise decision-making in environments of rising volatility and uncertainty. Whether it is improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply and driving collaboration across the multi-tier supply chain to improve resilience at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new product and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and margins, decision-making processes from long-range to tactical to execution horizon can be made faster and smarter and connected on o9’s Digital Brain Platform.
o9 brings together game-changing technology innovations — such as innovative enterprise knowledge graph modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for forecasting, demand/supply balancing, scenario planning, real time learning, collaboration, generative and agentic AI, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery, and innovative management methods — as well as organization, process and change management best practices to transform decision-making speed and intelligence.
