Brian Benfer

Chief Revenue Officer Salesloft

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Brian Benfer is Chief Revenue Officer of Salesloft, the AI revenue-orchestration software company created by the December 2025 merger of Clari and Salesloft. He was appointed in May 2026 to run the combined global revenue organisation, covering sales and partnerships and working alongside customer success, in one of the first senior hires made to knit the two go-to-market organisations together. He came to the job from Brightly Software, the asset and facilities management software business, where he spent six years as Chief Revenue Officer, pushed the company into APAC, EMEA and India, helped take it to profitability, and saw it through a series of acquisitions and eventually its sale to Siemens. His earlier career was built in enterprise infrastructure and IT management software, at SolarWinds and at Citrix.

Career Highlights

• Appointed Chief Revenue Officer of the merged Clari and Salesloft business on 13 May 2026, announced by the company alongside the appointment of Rajesh Krishnaswami as Chief Technology Officer.
• Listed as Chief Revenue Officer on Salesloft’s own leadership page as of September 2026, on an executive team led by chief executive Steve Cox.
• Runs the combined company’s global revenue organisation across sales and partnerships, in close coordination with customer success.
• Served six years as Chief Revenue Officer of Brightly Software, taking the business into APAC, EMEA and India and helping scale it to profitability.
• Led Brightly’s revenue organisation through multiple acquisitions and through the company’s sale to Siemens.
• Held sales leadership roles at SolarWinds and at Citrix earlier in his career.

Professional Journey

Benfer’s career has been spent selling infrastructure and operations software rather than front-office applications, which is a slightly unusual grounding for a revenue chief at a sales-technology company. He held sales leadership roles at Citrix, the virtualisation and remote-access company, and at SolarWinds, the IT monitoring and management vendor whose managed-service-provider business was later separated into the independent public company N-able. Both were high-volume, channel-heavy businesses where revenue leadership is a question of repeatable motion and territory coverage rather than of a handful of large enterprise deals.

He then spent six years as Chief Revenue Officer of Brightly Software, a provider of asset lifecycle and facilities management software used by schools, municipalities, healthcare systems and manufacturers. That tenure is the substance of his record. By the company’s account he expanded the business internationally into Asia-Pacific, EMEA and India, helped carry it to profitability, and led its revenue organisation through several acquisitions. The period ended with Brightly’s sale to Siemens, which folded the company into its smart-infrastructure business, and he stayed on through the Siemens ownership.

In May 2026 he joined the newly merged Clari and Salesloft as Chief Revenue Officer. The combination, completed in December 2025, brought together Clari’s revenue forecasting and pipeline analytics with Salesloft’s sales engagement platform, and the merged business has since consolidated behind the Salesloft brand, with Clari retained as a product name for the forecasting module. His appointment was announced in tandem with that of a new chief technology officer, and the company framed the pair as a push on revenue execution and AI capability at once. The job is essentially an integration assignment: a single revenue organisation has to be built from two previously competing go-to-market teams, and Salesloft has to sell revenue orchestration to sales organisations while demonstrating it on itself.

Education

No formal education record was found for Brian Benfer in any source checked, including the company’s own appointment announcement and leadership page. The field is left empty rather than filled from an unverifiable secondary profile.