Ray Barlow, who heads accounting programs in North America, is leaving Sage. Barlow this week confirmed he will depart the software company where he has worked since August 2015.
Barlow did not provide information about his plans although there is speculation that he will join XCM Services, which markets workflow products to accounting firms.
Before Sage, Barow served as senior leader for national accountants for Intuit from September 2013 through August 2015. From June 2002 through October 2012, he was VP of sales and marketing for CCH. If he were to go to XCM, he would rejoin that company's COO Mike Sabbatis, who was president of CCH Tax & Accounting North America and left that company the same month as Barlow.
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
