Boomi at Workday Rising 2024

As former President of Corporate Marketing at SAP, Alison brings more than 20 years of experience driving real-world impact through technology and the power of marketing. Having joined SAP through its acquisition of Business Objects, she led the company’s product marketing strategy, overseeing its global field and industry marketing teams, and played an instrumental role in the introduction and growth of flagship product SAP HANA in 2010.

Alison has held multiple global leadership roles in the platform business, including sales roles with the Vancouver Canuck Foundation, PGA Tour, and BC Lions. She attended the University of British Columbia and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a diploma in Marketing Communications from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Andrew Kowal is a Partner at Francisco Partners. Based in San Francisco, he joined the firm in 2001. Andrew currently serves on the boards of Boomi, Forcepoint, GoTo, LastPass, and Sandvine. He also previously served on the boards of Aderant, Corsair, Ichor Systems, iconectiv, Magnachip, Metrologic, Mitel Networks, Optanix, ShoreGroup, Source Photonics, and Tile.

Andrew has a B.S.E. from University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.
He previously worked at Princes Gate Investors, the private equity arm of the Institutional Securities Division of Morgan Stanley.

Arlen is a global technology executive with more than 25 years of experience leading high-growth businesses, driving financial and capital management strategies and business development, incubating new business models, and overseeing investments, and mergers and acquisitions at multi-billion dollar public enterprise software companies.

He formerly served as EVP and CFO of Citrix Systems, Inc., and prior to Citrix held multiple executive roles at SAP, including EVP and Global Head of Business Development and Ecosystems, CFO of SAP North America (SAP’s largest business unit), and Global Head of Corporate Development. He was a principal architect of SAP’s rapid transformation into a cloud company.

In his role at Boomi, Arlen oversees Finance, HR, IT, Legal and leads initiatives focused on operational excellence, corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, board relations, and preparing Boomi for its next stage of growth.

Arlen has a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law, an M.B.A. from the Fox School of Business at Temple University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from George Washington University. He has also completed the London Business School’s Corporate Finance Program. A Philadelphia Business Journal 2024 Corporate Leadership Awards Honoree, Arlen serves on the Boards of Directors of Commvault [NASDAQ: CVLT] and AspenTech [NASDAQ: AZPN] and as a director on the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts board of trustees.

Ann Maya is the EMEA CTO at Boomi. Ann has nearly 20 years in the software industry, serving varying roles – from software developer, application services consultant, solution architect, product manager and product marketing manager. Ann has been at Boomi for 6 years and currently resides in London in the UK. To relax she’s a keen tag rugby player and surfs and snowboards whenever near waves and mountains, respectively.