Last month Sage announced its President Blair Crump would leave the Executive Committee during the Annual General Meeting on February 25, 2020, and retire March 31, 2020.
Today Sage outlined what seems like a replacement for Blair Crump as well as two other executive changes.
Sage, a global market leader in cloud business management solutions, today announced the appointment of Lee Perkins to the newly-created role of Chief Commercial and Product Officer, following the news that Blair Crump will retire from his role as President at the end of March.
Lee has been leading the product organization for the last 12 months having returned to Sage in 2018. He originally joined Sage in 2011 and served as Managing Director of the UK & Ireland business. Lee has over 20 years’ commercial and general management experience in public and private equity backed businesses, most recently as CEO of Metronet, and previously in executive leadership roles at Tech Data and Computacenter.
Lee will continue to work with the leadership team and in particular Marc Linden, GM and EVP of Mid Market Native Cloud Solutions, to serve Sage’s small and medium customers with compelling solutions through Sage Business Cloud. Sage’s regional Managing Directors will now report to Lee.
The press release went on to outline several additional changes.
- Keith Robinson, Chief Strategy Officer, is appointed to the Executive Committee
- CMO Ron McMurtrie will leave the company at the end of March as the CMO position moves from North America to the U.K.
With this reorganization, it seems that most of Sage’s executives with global responsibilities are now based out of the U.K. The notable exception being Aaron Harris who was appointed CTO in April 2019 and whose LinkedIn shows him as based out of the Dallas Fort Worth, TX area.
