PairSoft names Brian Rigney CEO to drive ERP automation growth

TA Associates-backed PairSoft hires a four-time enterprise software CEO to scale its AI-native AP automation platform.

By Disrupts Editorial Team Tue, 4 August 2026

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PairSoft, a Miami-based provider of accounts payable and procurement automation embedded inside major ERP platforms, has appointed Brian Rigney as its new chief executive. Rigney brings four prior CEO tenures across enterprise software, digital commerce, and fintech, most recently leading CAI Software, an ERP platform serving mid-market manufacturers and distributors.

The appointment is backed by TA Associates, the Boston-headquartered private equity firm that has held a position in PairSoft since 2025. Harry Taylor, Managing Director at TA Associates, said Rigney's "proven ability to scale enterprise software businesses, build world-class teams, and drive customer-centric innovation makes him the ideal leader to accelerate PairSoft's global growth."

A crowded field for ERP-native automation

PairSoft's core proposition is that finance teams lose productivity by running automation tools that sit alongside their ERP rather than inside it. The platform integrates natively with Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, Blackbaud, Plex, and Infor SyteLine, targeting the CFO's office specifically. Rigney also founded a fintech payments startup earlier in his career, a background that may prove useful as PairSoft looks to extend from invoice automation into broader payments orchestration.

The ERP-native automation segment is increasingly contested. Established players such as Coupa, Basware, and Medius compete for the same CFO budget, while hyperscalers including Microsoft and Oracle continue to deepen their own native automation layers, squeezing the independent vendor's differentiation window. For PairSoft, moving quickly to embed AI agents directly into workflow rather than offering them as bolt-ons is a strategic necessity as much as a product choice.

The broader capital context

Rigney's hire arrives as private equity investment in enterprise finance software remains robust despite wider market caution around SaaS multiples. Firms like TA Associates, which has deployed capital across more than 560 companies since 1968 and manages roughly $65 billion in raised capital, have continued to back mid-market software consolidators on the thesis that AI-augmented automation unlocks durable margin expansion for finance teams under cost pressure.

For cross-sector investors, the story sits within a larger pattern: the automation of the CFO's office is no longer a productivity story alone. As AI agents take over invoice matching, purchase-order reconciliation, and payments routing, the data exhaust from those workflows becomes a strategic asset, feeding treasury analytics, supplier risk models, and working-capital optimisation tools. The PE community's appetite for ERP-native platforms reflects a bet that whoever controls the automation layer inside the ERP also controls that data pipeline.

Whether Rigney can widen PairSoft's reach beyond its current mid-market base, and into the enterprise tier where Oracle and SAP's own automation offerings are most entrenched, will be the first real test of this appointment.