Bottini was most recently VP of sales for Rich North America, a position he assumed in 2008 when Ricoh acquired Ikon Office Solutions where he worked for nearly 20 years. Bernson had been employed by rival Automatic Data Processing before her short-lived tenure at Paychex. In a recent webcast, CEO Martin Mucci had called the hiring a mistake he had dealt with quickly. The company previously had one executive handling sales and marketing, until Mucci opted for separate positions for those functions.