Danish reseller and developer Columbus has named Henning Gershof as VP of sales and market operations. Gershof was sales operations director for the company for the last two years. The Copenhagen, Denmark-based company says Gershof will be an important player in implementing its Columbus2020 strategy. Going back a bit, Gershof was with IBM in the Nordic region from August 199 through March 2011.

Channel veteran Ken Lorenz has taken over responsibility for the Riva channel in North America. Lorenz, now director of partner engagement says Riva has a channel but "They have not had somebody specifically in charge." With more than 500 names in the Riva program, the job will be more about activation of existing resellers than recruiting new ones. Riva integrates most email and CRM packages via server-side synchronization. Lorenz says no VAR is likely to build a business around reselling Riva.

NetSuite was in a flurry of activity this week in Asia with product introductions, an executive hiring in Japan and new channel members named. The San Mateo, Calif.-based cloud software company released its OneWorld Suite for Hong Kong and Singapore, although given the number of companies running the product there already, this was more a "grand opening" banner after the store had opened.