The second long-term veteran of Intuit's accounting program is leaving the tax and accounting software company. Jill Ward, SVP of the Accounting Professionals Division, is exiting in March to return to be near her family in Boston, Mass. Ward joined Intuit in 2001 as the VP and general manager of the company's QuickBase operations. Her announcement follows last month's retirement of Rich Walker, who had served as the company's director of global accountant strategy and programs since August 2012 and had been with Intuit for 15 years.

Manufacturing software vendor Plex has named Don Clarke as CFO. Clarke comes to the Troy, Mich.-based cloud company after having spent five years at Eloqua, which produces marketing automation applications, through its IPO in 2012 and purchase by Oracle early last year. Press accounts interpreted this as another part of Plex's own move towards an IPO of its own, supported by statements from Plex CEO Jason Blessing that it is following the steps to get to the public market.

Interdyn BMI, based in Minneapolis, has moved into the mid-Atlantic region with the purchase of Commerce Systems Group. Both are Dynamics resellers with CSG carrying Dynamics GP and NAV. It also has two interesting vertical packages for the NAV market Dynamics NAV for Lake Management and Pebblestone Fashion. It also handles QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, a phrase that we don't see much anymore on mid-market reseller sites these days

With Microsoft's information control leaking like the Titanic, there should be no surprise that this week the soft giant named Satya Nadella as the next CEO effective immediately. Ah, Satya, we barely knew ye. So the next question about Nadella, who once headed development for Dynamics, is how much he will he make not that he has taken over from Steve Ballmer. Neither Ballmer or Gates, with their billions in stock, ever took much salary, at least much as measured in the world of big company CEOs. Ballmer had $1.3 million in total compensation for fiscal 2013.