Jim Foster, who was briefly the first chief technology officer at Sage North America, has landed the job as CEO of The Neat Co., a Philadelphia-based organization which makes scanners to organize receipts, business cards and other documents. Foster takes over the job from co-founder Les Spero who will serve as chairman. Foster was one of four executives of what was then called Sage Software who were dismissed by the parent company Sage Group in October 2007. The others were then CEO Ron Verni, CFO Jim Eckstaedt and Taylor Macdonald, who had headed the channel program. Foster was the last one to land another job, although Verni's stint as CEO of Corrigo, which started in February 2008, lasted only five months. Macdonald spent most of 2008 as the channel VP at Deltek, then moved on to the role of VP of channels for educational software vendor Promethean. Eckstaedt got the job of CFO at management consulting firm SM&A (and is still there.) Since leaving Corrigo, Verni's Linkedin page has described him as a consultant. However, he is also a board member for iLumen and CraneWare