Sage has hired Rick Burtt, a long-time Microsoft Dynamics NAV employee, as channel development and strategy manager. Burtt  has been at Sage North America for a month. Before that, he spent eight years with Navision in the U.S., and then the next eight years with Microsoft which purchased Navision in 2002. At Microsoft, he was global alliance business development manager until July. Early in his career, he was with Peachtree for two years and started with Navision in 1994. At that Atlanta-area based organization, he spent four years as VP of finance and operations and was director of business development when Navision was acquired.