KeyedIn Solutions is looking for an engagement manager for its partner channel. The website of KeyedIn, which makes project accounting software, has 12 different job titles open. For the partner job, the cloud company is looking for someone to facilitate the onboarding of new partners and to support the channel with end user sales, implementation and account management. The lucky hire will also act as a partner advocate.

SWK Technologies has named Alan Hardy as SVP of business development. The job and terms of employment were spelled out by SWK's parent, SilverSun Technologies, which completed the purchase of Hardy's firm ESC Software. Both companies are Sage resellers. Hardy gets $162,000 annually and a monthly car allowance of $600. He also receives 600,000 stock options in SilverSun which issue at 15 center per share and vest in five equal annual installments.

NetSuite has continued to go upmarket but is not neglecting the low-end users. COO Jim McGeever said during a press and anlayst session at this week's Suiteworld conference that "we are somewhat re-invigorating our low-end efforts. McGeever later explained that the company is hiring and training recent college graduates to go after companies with fewer than 50 users.

Three cofounders of the former Lawson Software have agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle SEC charges of insider trading. The SEC accused Richard Lawson, chairman of the former Lawson Software, of tipping off his brother and John Cerullo about the impending purchase of the company by Infor. The two were given advance information about terms and passed on that data to a third party before it closed in April 2011. The three made $2 million in profits on their trades. Cerullo and both Lawsons co-founded the software company.