McGladrey has named a chief technology officer. New to the job is Troy Cardinal, who will oversee strategy, applications and operations from the firm’s office in Minneapolis, Minn. Cardinal joins McGladrey after working at KPMG where he started in 2001. In his final position, he was director of offshore technology services, KPMG Technology from 2013 until July and was IT director for that unit from 2010 through 2013.  Always interesting when CPA firms hire someone who worked at another firm. The announcement often omits the name of the prior employers, as was the case here. The prior occupant of the job was Robert Lewis.

The dismemberment of the remnants of Tectura continued this summer while I was somewhat distracted. The North American part of what was once the country’s largest financial application reseller was sold to Australian UXC Eclipse earlier this year. Early in June, QuantiQ Technology, formed for the purpose, acquired Tectura U.K. The QuintiQ website actually headlines the deal as “Tectura rebrands to QuantiQ”, which seems to miss some of the flavor of what happened. Later that month, the Cosmo Consult Group picked up a chunk of Tectura EMEA: the businesses in France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Cosmo Consult sells products for discrete and project manufacturers and project manufacturing, including life sciences, based on Dynamics AX and NAV.

The corporation called Serenic, which marketed nonprofit applications under that brand, has become OneSoft Solutions. The name change was accomplished on July 28 as part of the deal via which the Serenic financial applications were sold to Sylogist Ltd. Both OneSoft and Sylogist are Canadian companies. With the morphing done, Serenic chairman Dwayne Kushniruk has replaced Randy Keith, who was with the old Serenic since 2007, as CEO and president of OneSoft. Keith remains a director for the next year.

The house of Michael Hall, who played the “good” serial killer “Dexter” is on the market. It comes with a set of knives and a lifetime supply of plastic wrap. ...  After two weeks away from ice skating, I was back for a lesson with my teacher. “It’s like I haven’t left,” I told him. ”The things I couldn’t do two weeks ago, I still can’t do.” Later, I was on a bench at the rink tinkering with my right skate, which was having a problem. “What’s the matter?” a guy next to me said. “I’ve got a screw loose.” “Yeah, but what’s wrong with the skate?” But my skating continues to improve. Just the other day, someone yelled, “What a Lutz!” or something like that.