Epicor has announced that Vaibhav Vohra will become Chief Executive Officer effective October 1, 2026. Vohra succeeds Steve Murphy, who will step down at the close of the company’s fiscal year on September 30, 2026, and will continue to serve on the Board of Directors of the Austin, Texas-based ERP provider.
The transition caps a planned succession process led by Epicor’s Board, and one that has been visible for nearly two years. As ERP Today reported in October 2024, Vohra’s appointment as President was part of a set of key leadership appointments designed to advance the company’s AI-powered cognitive ERP strategy for the make, move, and sell industries, moves that also saw Arturo Buzzalino promoted to Chief Innovation Officer and Scott Morgan join as Chief Revenue Officer.
“Vaibhav is a proven leader with deep experience in enterprise software, and I am confident he is the right person to lead Epicor into its next chapter,” said Jeff Hawn, Chair of Epicor’s Board of Directors. “On behalf of the Board, I want to thank Steve for his outstanding leadership at Epicor and the strong foundation he leaves in place.”
A product-led CEO
Vohra joined Epicor in 2021 as Chief Product Officer and has taken on roles of increasing responsibility since, most recently serving as President and Chief Product and Technology Officer. In that time, he has led the company’s product strategy, development, management, and design, and has been central to advancing its cloud, AI, and data supply chain vision. Before Epicor, he was a product leader at Gecko Robotics and held executive product roles at SAP, where he worked on the German vendor’s SaaS transition during the 2010s.
That product pedigree matters because Vohra is the chief architect of the Cognitive ERP vision he now inherits as CEO. In a wide-ranging conversation with ERP Today, Vohra described the mission as “empowering essential workers with superpowers to give them ten times the skills and insights,” outlining a journey from cloud to cognitive built on three elements: Handshakes that redefine how humans and machines interact, Gears that bring low-code automation to the shop floor, and Sparks that deliver industry-specific insights. Customers such as Visa, Cash App, and the RB Formula One team already use Epicor Prism, the company’s GenAI service, to track roughly 14,000 components and automate make-or-buy decisions. As Vohra put it then: “ERP is the vehicle for AI. But AI is only as good as the data.”
“I am honored to lead Epicor as we enter a new era of transformation across enterprise software,” said Vohra of his appointment. “Over the past five years, I’ve seen firsthand the people, customers, and partners that make this company special.”
Murphy’s legacy
Under Murphy, Epicor strengthened its position as a SaaS leader in industry-focused ERP, accelerated its transition to a cloud-first business, expanded through sustained innovation and strategic acquisitions, and surpassed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue. “With the company performing well and a clear strategy in place, this is the right time for a change,” Murphy said. “Vaibhav has been instrumental in shaping our product and technology direction, and he is the right leader for what comes next.”
For customers and partners, elevating a product and technology leader to the top job signals continuity rather than course correction. Epicor is betting that the next chapter of industry-specific ERP will be written in AI, with intelligent agents, automation, and human-guided decision support embedded directly into enterprise workflows, and it has now put the architect of that vision in charge.
