Roskill said this seek this week that Acumatica began reaching out to him about eight weeks ago. He said the thing that appealed to him is the company's channel orientation. "Everything I have had to do in the last 20 years is with and through partners," he said. Before his last Microsoft job, Roskill was VP of U.S. Business and marketing from May 2003 through June 2009. A major goal for Roskill will be continued reseller recruitment. Although Acumatica has been active in building the VAR channel he said that if the current members were plotted on a map of the United States "There are still some big holes.
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Microsoft executive Jon Roskill became the CEO of cloud vendor Acumatica this week in what is clearly a surprising move. Roskill, who spent 20 years at Microsoft, was most recently corporate VP of the worldwide partner group, a position he took in June 2009. The surprise is that Roskill replaces Yury Larichev who became CEO in January 2013. The company says Larichev will decide upon his plans in two weeks or so, but will remain during the transition.
