SAGE DIRECTOR LEAVING
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.
That’s clearly one of the messages that Berruyer seems likely to deliver in all Sage regions: suck in more maintenance bucks. Stobart joined Sage in 1996 as business development director. Alvarez came aboard in 2003 when Sage acquired Grupo SP, which he founded. Since then, the Spanish business has increased by more than 300 percent. Of course, this all follows last falls departure of chief executive Paul Walker, who spent 16 years with the company.
