Blair Crump, president of Sage since August, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Sage Group. Crump will become an executive director on January 1. He becomes the first American on the Sage board since the departure of Ron Verni in 2007.

Sage has hired Blair Crump as president with responsibility for sales and customer service, the first time Sage has ever had a president for the company's world-wide operations. Crump will report to CEO Stephen Kelly. Crump was COO from Pros Holdings from February 2014 and president of Salesforce.com from February 2012 through January 2014.