Jodi Uecker-Rust has followed her old boss out of the financial software business into the North Dakota state government. The veteran of Great Plains/Microsoft and Sage has become COO of the state under new governor Doug Burgum. Uecker Rust held a variety of titles at Great Plains, ending as COO under Burgum, then the CEO.

Columbus has promoted John Hendrickson, the head of Interdyn BMI to the position of SVP of business transformation. And apparently BMI will finally be integrated with the other Columbus reselling operations in this country. Columbus purchased BMI in 2015 and the Minneapolis, Minn.-area reseller has played an important role in turning around the performance of Denmark-based Columbus in the United States.

SugarCRM has named Karen Willem as CFO. She fills the position held by Steve Valenzuela from January 2015 through November 201. Willem was CFO of Lilee Systems from October 2015 through January. Before that she was CFO of iPass from June 2013 through June 2015. Besides being responsible for SugarCRM's financial operations, Willem will direct other general and administrative functions.