Chad Gaydos is chief executive of Procurify, the Vancouver company that takes purchase requests, approvals, bills, and expenses through one workflow for mid-market organizations. He took the role in January 2025 after three decades in enterprise software.
Eighteen Years at SAP
Gaydos began his career at SAP, where he spent 18 years and rose to chief operating officer of its Regulated Industries business. In that role he ran strategy, operations, and customer relationships across aerospace and defense, federal, state, and local government, utilities, and healthcare in the United States.
Scaling Software Companies
He then moved to growth-stage companies. At Skillsoft, the corporate learning company, he held the dual roles of chief revenue officer and chief operating officer across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. At Talkdesk, the contact center software company, he was chief operating officer and helped build the executive team through a $230 million Series D that valued the company at more than $10 billion. Most recently he was president of Total Expert, a CRM for financial services firms.
Leading Procurify
He succeeded co-founder Aman Mann at Procurify, and Mann became chief strategy officer. Gaydos arrived as the company launched its accounts payable automation product and after a growth capital investment from CIBC Innovation Banking, and Procurify had raised a $50 million Series C in 2023. His stated priorities were optimizing operations, deepening customer engagement, and driving innovation in go-to-market. In his first month he also hired Jeffrey Hardy from SAP as chief revenue officer.
Procurify competes with Payhawk and Spendesk for finance teams that want purchasing and spend control together. For Gaydos, the job is to make a company that already runs hundreds of finance teams feel like the obvious choice for the next thousand.
