SoftwareONE Holding AG announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Brian Duffy as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SoftwareOne effective May 2023, succeeding Dieter Schlosser. Brian most recently served as President of Cloud for SAP. Brian joins SoftwareOne after spending nearly 20 years at SAP.

Most recently, he served as President of Cloud, responsible for creating and scaling 'RISE with SAP', a key strategic initiative to move customers to the cloud. Prior to this role, Brian was President of Northern Europe, with responsibility for the region's end-to-end business, including overseeing go-to-market planning, sales strategies and partner engagements. He also served as head of Global Strategic Initiatives, the team tasked with negotiating key commercial agreements globally.

During his tenure, Brian lived in the US, UK, Japan and China and was a member of its global sustainability council and an executive sponsor for Diversity & Inclusion.