Compensation Policy and Principles

SoftwareONE's compensation policy focuses on aligning the interests of its senior leaders with those of its shareholders on attracting, motivating and retaining the best talent in a highly competitive global environment. Consequently, the compensation principles applied across SoftwareONE are geared towards:

Promotion of SoftwareONE's core values	Embody SoftwareONE’s entrepreneurial spirit and its results-driven, customer-first culture, through the characteristics of empowerment, accountability and self-development. In parallel, the principles align to SoftwareONE’s core values of speed, customer focus, employee satisfaction, humbleness, passion, integrity and discipline both in terms of overall compensation level and framework design
Pay-for-performance alignment for EB members and the broader employee population	Create a link between the company’s overall performance and the individual’s performance in relation to the performance goals set at the beginning of the performance period and strategy execution
	Underperformance is not rewarded
Shareholder and company value creation	Actively promote the development of profitable and sustainable new relationships with customers and publishers
Shareholder and company value creation	Expand the profitable and sustainable sale of all diversified solutions
Motivation and retention	Increase and maintain the level of competence within SoftwareONE’s organization
Motivation and retention	Honor and recognize extraordinary performance
Collaboration and teamwork	Foster pragmatism and value individual as well as team performance of SoftwareONE’s employees
Collaboration and teamwork	Drive collaboration between employee groups to achieve to achieve sales, profitability, growth and operational goals
Transparency	Request prospective approval from shareholders for the BoD’s and EB’s overall compensation including variable compensation for EB members