Sage North America has hired Gabrielle Boko as EVP of marketing. This is a fairly heavy-duty hire. Boko was VP of marketing for SAP from June 2007 until this month and had the same title at OutlookSoft from May 2006 until that company was acquired by SAP. Going back in the early 2000s, she was a senior director at Cognos from August 1997 through May 2001.