Payroll services provider Paychex has named former Ricoh executive Mark A. Bottini as its new SVP of sales. Bottini, who will take over the job next month, fills a vacancy left when the previous new hire, Rebecca F. Bernson, resigned on June 6 after five days on the job.
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.