In its announcement, LeaseQuery said there were. 79 additions to its channel last year with more than 480 new customers signed by channel organizations. Factors the company cited were the launch of a partner program and virtual and in-person Lease summits. Members of the program include accounting firms Grant Thornton, Crowe, Cherry Bekaert, FORVIS, Baker Tilly, Armanino and Frazier & Deeter. Teixeira had led partner strategy and sales at Sage since May 2019. She joined that company in October 2014 as director of sales for the North American Sage Accountant Solutions. Before that, she spent slightly more than 10 years with Microsoft Canada where she was national sales director for Dynamics CRM for the last three years there, leaving in 2011.