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A CriticalRiver Podcast Series

Enterprise Decoded

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Honest conversations on the trends
shaping the AI-first enterprise, with the leaders building it.

Hosted by

Anji Maram

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CIOs · CTOs · Product Leaders · Tech Enthusiasts

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Buying twenty tools isn’t a strategy. It’s organized fragmentation.

— ENTERPRISE DECODED, EPISODE 3

AI-NATIVE ARCHITECTURE
SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
TECH GOVERNANCE

The CIO Brief: The Long Game

With Steven Nott, semiconductor industry veteran and CIO, in conversation with Anji Maram, Founder and CEO, CriticalRiver Inc.

Is your organization genuinely transforming with AI, or just accumulating technical debt with better branding? Anji Maram and Steven Nott challenge the current enterprise playbook, breaking down why short-sighted tool proliferation leads to organized fragmentation and where a security-first approach actually unlocks sustainable velocity. They unpack the five-part blueprint CIOs need to move from AI-adopted to AI-native and build a structural edge that compounds over the next decade.

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The full series

Episode 01

Why Intent Matters in an AI-First World

Dr. Vijay Gurbaxani, Senior Advisory Board Member, CriticalRiver Inc. | Taco Bell Endowed Chair of Technology Management and Director, Center for Digital Transformation, University of California, Irvine.

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Episode 02

Designing AI Systems that People Trust

Raju Reddy, Founder & CEO, Sierra Atlantic | Independent Board Director, CriticalRiver Inc. | Entrepreneur and Angel Investor

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Episode 03

The CIO Brief: The Long Game

Steven Nott, Chief Information Officer, FormFactor Inc. | Former CIO, Cypress Semiconductor | 20+ Years in Legacy-to-Cloud Transformation, Cybersecurity, and M&A Integration

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Anji Maram · Founder & CEO

Anji Maram

Founder & CEO, CriticalRiver Inc.

Anji Maram is the founder and CEO of CriticalRiver, where he sets the company’s long-term vision and ensures its execution is tightly aligned with client needs and industry direction. Since founding CriticalRiver in 2014, he has led its expansion into an AI-first technology services firm, focused on delivering high-quality, customer-centric solutions at scale.

As the host of Enterprise Decoded, Anji brings the perspective of someone who has built, scaled, and led businesses to every conversation. He asks the questions other interviewers generally skip, pushing guests beyond standard talking points to uncover the insights that truly matter to leaders making decisions.

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