Sovos appoints David McCann as Chief Technology Officer

Sovos has appointed David McCann as Chief Technology Officer, adding a technology executive with experience in financial software and other regulated sectors.

McCann joins the tax compliance software company from Self Financial, where he was CTO. He will lead Sovos's global technology organisation, with a focus on its compliance platform, data and AI initiatives, and the scalability of its systems for multinational customers navigating real-time regulatory requirements.

Before Self Financial, McCann held senior technology and product roles at Abrigo, Accruent and CLEAResult. At Abrigo and Accruent, he served as both chief technology officer and chief product officer.

McCann has spent more than two decades working on enterprise software platforms and technology transformation programmes. He has also served as a board member and software operating partner for venture capital and private equity firms, and has been directly involved in more than USD $5 billion in business outcomes.

His appointment comes as Sovos expands its tax and regulatory software products, including Sovi AI and the Sovos Tax Compliance Cloud. The business processes nearly 20 billion transactions a year and supports compliance operations in more than 150 countries.

The hire underscores the importance Sovos is placing on technology leadership as tax and compliance software providers face growing demand from large companies for systems that can handle shifting rules across jurisdictions. Businesses operating in multiple markets are under pressure to keep up with increasingly real-time reporting and digital tax requirements.

At Self Financial, McCann led platform modernisation and organisational change efforts aimed at increasing delivery speed and improving resilience. Sovos sees that experience as relevant to its own push to build a broader compliance platform for multinational enterprises.

Leadership change

Gregg Spratto, President of Sovos, linked the appointment to changing customer expectations in the compliance market.

"We are at an inflection point in global tax compliance, with enterprises expecting AI-powered intelligence, real-time regulatory coverage, and agentic workflows that work across their entire technology ecosystem," said Gregg Spratto, president of Sovos. "Dave brings the exact combination of cloud-native platform depth, AI-forward thinking, and high-performance team leadership that will accelerate our ability to deliver a unified, intelligent compliance platform for multinational enterprises. He is the right leader at the right moment for Sovos."

McCann will be tasked with further differentiating the platform and building on recent product development, including work around tax guidance, automation and what Sovos describes as agent interoperability.

Sovos operates in a market where vendors are increasingly trying to combine tax determination, reporting, e-invoicing and other compliance tasks into single platforms. That is increasing pressure on software groups to update infrastructure while adding AI features that support analysis, workflow management and regulatory monitoring.

Platform focus

For Sovos, which counts more than 100,000 customers, including half of the Fortune 500, the technology brief is closely tied to scale. Its customer base and transaction volumes mean reliability and system integration are likely to remain central as it develops newer automation and AI tools.

McCann described the sector as one shaped by data, processing demands and trust.

"Tax and regulatory compliance sit at the intersection of data complexity, real-time processing, and trust, and Sovos has built something genuinely differentiated in that space," said McCann. "I've spent my career building scalable platforms that help organizations navigate complexity with confidence. I'm excited to bring that experience to Sovos and work alongside this team to shape what the future of intelligent, automated tax compliance technology looks like for global enterprises."

McCann's appointment follows a period in which compliance technology providers have sought to position themselves as broader infrastructure partners for finance and tax teams rather than point-solution vendors. In that environment, executive hires with both product and engineering backgrounds have become more common as companies try to integrate data, workflow and regulatory content into a single operating model.

Sovos said McCann's leadership approach brings product, engineering and design together in one model with accountability for outcomes.