Jim Hoefflin

Chief Executive Officer IFS Softeon

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Jim Hoefflin is Chief Executive Officer of IFS Softeon, the warehouse management software business that IFS formed when it acquired Softeon in 2026. He was named CEO of Softeon in December 2022, when the Reston, Virginia company was backed by Warburg Pincus. IFS announced its agreement to buy the business in December 2025, and it joined IFS in March 2026. Hoefflin has spent most of his career in supply chain and warehouse software. He co-founded Software Architects in 1990, held senior product and technology roles at RedPrairie, and was president and CEO of CBORD / Horizon Software, part of Roper Technologies, before joining Softeon.

Career Highlights

• Chief Executive Officer of IFS Softeon, which offers warehouse management, warehouse execution and distributed order management software.
• Named CEO of Softeon in December 2022. He led the company through its acquisition by IFS, which was announced in December 2025 and completed in March 2026.
• Received a 2026 Pros to Know award from Supply & Demand Chain Executive, in the Leaders in Excellence category.
• Previously president and CEO of CBORD / Horizon Software, a Roper Technologies company.
• Served RedPrairie twice: in roles including CTO and Warehouse System Business Unit President/COO from 1998 to 2005, then as EVP, Products and Marketing from January 2008.
• Co-founded supply chain software provider Software Architects, Inc., and was its President from 1990 to 1998.

Professional Journey

Hoefflin’s career began in supply chain software. From 1990 to 1998 he co-founded and ran Software Architects, Inc., a supply chain software provider, as President. In 1998 he joined RedPrairie, the Wisconsin warehouse management company. According to the company’s 2009 registration statement, over the next seven years he was Senior Vice President of Implementation Services, Warehouse System Business Unit President/COO, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Product Development. Softeon later credited him as co-developer of the warehouse management industry’s first component-based technology platform.

He left RedPrairie in 2005 and set up a consultancy, nextsevenLLC, as an executive business consultant. At the start of 2008 he returned to RedPrairie as Executive Vice President, Products and Marketing, and was one of its named executive officers when it filed for an initial public offering in November 2009. RedPrairie is now part of Blue Yonder.

His later roles, which the available sources do not date, took him into other kinds of enterprise software. He held executive leadership roles at Kewill, a supply chain software firm later rebranded BluJay and now part of e2open. He was a senior executive at Empower Software Solutions, a workforce management company. He was also president and CEO of CBORD / Horizon Software, a food and nutrition software business owned by Roper Technologies. Softeon describes this experience as spanning global logistics, human resources management and food and nutrition, and says he scaled organisations from start-up to $200 million in revenue.

Softeon named him CEO in December 2022. At the time it was a Reston, Virginia provider of cloud warehouse management, warehouse execution and distributed order management software, backed by growth investor Warburg Pincus. In December 2025 IFS signed a definitive agreement to acquire Softeon. Hoefflin called the deal “an extraordinary opportunity to accelerate our innovation in warehouse management”. Softeon joined IFS in March 2026 to form IFS Softeon, and he remains its CEO. In April 2026 Supply & Demand Chain Executive gave him a Pros to Know award in its Leaders in Excellence category.

Outside work he holds Green Bay Packers season tickets. He also follows Formula 1 and has been to several races with his son.

Education

Rollins College

EMBA

Gateway Technical Institute

Associate degree, Computer Science

University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Attended; no degree is stated in any source found.