Paul Harrison to trip the light fantastic at WANdisco

Paul Harrison, long time CFO at Sage, is to join AIM-listed, Sheffield/Silicon Valley based 'Big Data' play, WANdisco as its new CFO, a position that will move to California. Current CFO Nick Parker will step down on 1st September after less than two years with the company. Harrison will therefore be reunited with his old mucker, ex-Sage CEO Paul Walker, who is a non-exec director at WANdisco.

This is an 'interesting' appointment, teaming up another veteran of the legacy SME accounting software industry with a 'high energy' start-up very much pointed towards the larger enterprise (see WANdisco still soaring). There's no doubting that Harrison will add more 'gravitas' to the WANdisco board. But let's hope that he is polishing up his quick-step after years waltzing at Sage!