Taylor Macdonald, who ran the reseller program for Sage North America for several years, has left Infor, an enterprise software company for which he was building a global reseller program. Confirmation of his departure coincided with a press release by Infor stating it had enlisted 25 new channel partners and declaring its program a success. The released a statement saying that "Taylor devoted his full energy to an evaluation of our current channel program, including extensive travel to visit partners around the globe."

Privately held, Infor has grown rapidly since 2002 to an estimated $2.8 billion in revenue by acquisition of companies such as Systems Union. Along with acquiring a variety of products, it also had a bevy of different reseller programs that Macdonald had hoped to make more uniform. Infor has provided little information on that effort but was working at press time to set up an interview with a senior executive about the reseller program.

Macdonald was an executive at Sage for several years and was ousted, along with three other top executives, in October 2007. During 2008, he was at Deltek, a Herndon, Va.-based vendor that makes software for project-oriented companies. After just under a year there, he assumed a similar role at Atlanta-based Promethean, an educational software company.

Infor is planning on releasing more information about its channel program via an April 29 Webinar being held by chief strategy officer, Bruce Richardson. While the company has not described the type of channel organizations it sought, those businesses whose Web sites show they resell Infor products tend to be larger than the average VAR that sells Microsoft or Sage products and operate in several regions of the United States and also tend to have international operations.