Epicor Software has reformulated its channel leadership. Matt Bauer, who started as channel director for the Americas in February 2012, left the company in January. His duties have been taken over by John Matterson, who became a senior director for the channel program in October. A spokesperson said that Matterson "has taken on an expanded role which includes what Matt was doing.

Chief product officer Angus Norton is leaving Xero after working in that position since October 2014. Based in New Zealand, Norton is returning to his home in Seattle, Wash. His duties are being taken over by Duncan Ritchie, chief platform officer, with the product and platform teams being merged together as the cloud-based software company completes its platform migration to AWS. 

After spending a year (officially) at NetSuite, Fred Studer, has returned to Oracle after being away from that software company since September 2007. He has come back to Oracle as SVP of product development. Studer was chief marketing officer at NetSuite from December 2014 through December 2015 when he was forced out. Before that, he worked at Microsoft from September 2007 through December 2014.