Arlen Shenkman serves as President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at UKG, where he leads the finance organisation — including global accounting, financial planning, reporting, analysis, business analytics, tax and treasury, and financial administrative operation — as well as corporate strategy, corporate development, IT, M&A, and procurement.
With more than 25 years of experience leading high-growth businesses, Arlen is a global-minded technology executive with success driving financial and capital management strategies and business development, incubating new business models, and overseeing investments and mergers and acquisitions at multi-billion-dollar enterprise software companies.
Before joining UKG in 2025, Arlen was president of Boomi where he oversaw finance, IT, legal, corporate development, strategic partnerships, and operational excellence initiatives. Previously, Arlen was executive vice president (EVP) and CFO of Citrix Systems, Inc., and he held multiple executive roles at SAP, including CFO of SAP North America — the company’s largest business unit — and EVP & global head of Business Development & Ecosystems, where he was responsible for M&A and the integration of companies into SAP. He was the principal architect of SAP’s rapid transformation into a cloud company.
A Philadelphia Business Journal 2024 Corporate Leadership Awards Honoree, Arlen serves on the Boards of Directors of both Commvault and AspenTech, and is a director on the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts board of trustees.