In memoriam Michel van Teijlingen

May 23, 2024 - SoftwareOne announces the sad news that Michel van Teijlingen, former General Manager and Federation Lead Benelux at SoftwareOne, passed away today on May 23. Michel had been ill for some time and resigned from his positions at SoftwareOne in May 2022, although he remained involved with the organization as a coach. The employees of SoftwareOne experience Michel's passing as a great and sad loss.

Michel worked his entire career in the IT sector. He started in 1998 as an account manager at PC-Ware and was General Manager at COMPAREX when this company was acquired by SoftwareOne in 2018. Thanks to Michel's efforts, the acquisition by SoftwareOne went very smoothly, allowing the organisation to grow from a 'license house' to a managed services provider. Michel was appointed General Manager and Board Member at SoftwareOne in January 2020, two years later he was also given the task of Federation Lead, making him regionally responsible for the entire Benelux.

Vincent van den Bout at SoftwareOne: “Michel was an exceptionally inspiring social colleague and personality, who always put the team's interests first and never lost sight of the value of connection and good collaboration. Even in difficult times, he knew how to enthuse people and the current success of SoftwareOne is certainly largely due to Michel. We will miss Michel as a colleague, friend, but especially as a decisive and above all beautiful person. We wish his relatives and friends a lot of strength and power.”