CEO Krista Endsley has left Abila after serving as CEO of the nonprofit software company since its formation in March 2013. Endsley has been replaced in the role at Austin, Texas-based Abila, by Craig Charlton, who has years of experience in the Epicor market.
Endsley joined Best Software, which was to become known as Sage in the United States, in its Abra time tracking business in July 2001. During her last four years with Sage she ran its nonprofit software business. The operation was sold to KKR-Accel in 2013.
Charlton was serving as a strategic advisor to Accel-KKR. However his business experience is in Epicor Software's operations in the Asia-Pacific region. He joined Epicor in May 2007 with its purchase of Australian reseller Professional Advantage, where he created the VAR's Epicor practice. He was SVP and GM of Epicor's Asia-Pacific business from April 2012 through March.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind