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Boomi appoints Sean Wechter as CIO

By TechTaffy Desk

Boomi has announced the appointment of Sean Wechter as its new chief information officer. Mr. Wechter will be in charge of managing Boomi’s IT infrastructure, security, data science, and enterprise systems, the company said in a statement.

Before joining Boomi, Mr. Wechter served as the CIO at Benefitfocus, where he worked with software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions, leading the Information Technology and Data organizations. Mr. Wechter also has previous experience as CIO at Qlik, and has held roles at PwC, Xfinity, Dell, and Gartner.

Mr. Wechter holds an MBA in Management from Bentley College and a Bachelor of Science degree from Clarkson University.

[Image courtesy: Boomi]

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