Pascal Houillon, ushered out of his position as CEO of Sage North America, has become active in a French company designed to provide cloud-based digital payments. Houillon has become an investor and chairman of the strategic committee of Clearnox, which is described as providing the services to small and mid-size businesses. "The goal is to confirm the success of the solution in mainland Europe then I will find a Private Equity firm to finance the expansion of the company to the U.S. market," Houillon said in a LinkedIn message regarding his activities.