Blair Crump, president of Sage since August, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Sage Group. Crump will become an executive director on January 1. He becomes the first American on the Sage board since the departure of Ron Verni in 2007.

Another veteran Sage executive is leaving the company. Paul Stobart, CEO of Sage Northern Europe, is leaving on May 31. He will be replaced by Alvaro Ramirez, CEO of Sage Southern Europe who will have the CEO job for a new division covering all of Europe. Earlier this year, new Sage Group CEO Guy Berruyer, talked extremely favorably about the Spanish operations, particularly its ability to get more maintenance revenue out of customers.