He joined Sage in September 1997 and held the North America job from January 2011 through May 2015, when he departed for other opportunities. Cegid markets cloud services and enterprise software. Houillon was not viewed by many as a friend of the channel while he was running things in this hemisphere. Before moving here, Houillon was president of Sage's markets with significant numbers of French speakers—Belgium, France, Switzerland and areas in Africa. Brazil was later tacked on.