Sales-and-use-tax vendor Avalara has hired Anthony Zuanich as executive director of channel sales. He was most recently sales EVP at rival SpeedTax. Zuanich joined Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based Avalara at the end of July.  His resume including working as executive director of business processing outsourcing sales for Accenture and he was a sales manager at ADP. Avalara said his job will be building relationships with large resellers. And in July, Avalara named Blytheco, Sage’s perennial award winner, as its annual Business Partner of the Year.