Almeida was also a member of the Sage executive committee. Almeida joined along with three other cloud execs. One of them, Nuno Godinho, EVP of product delivery—cloud portfolio, bolted for a job at Empiricus in July 2018. Perkins was EVP and managing director for the United Kingdom and Ireland when he left Sage in April 2016. He is now October as EVP of the global diversified portfolio, but actually returned a few months earlier as interim leader of his old territory.