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Sean Mack

Managing Director, CXO Advisor · ISMG · verified 2026-09-07

Sean D. Mack is a visionary and innovative technology leader with a history of driving global business strategy and transformation. He has extensive background in all aspects of technology leadership including DevOps, security, cloud, infrastructure, enterprise applications, development, and program management. Sean is an author, public speaker, and former CIO and CISO at Wiley. Sean has led global teams across a wide range of companies from large financial companies like Experian to innovative tech companies like Etsy. Throughout his career he has held a variety of technology leadership ranging from Vice President of Operations and Applications for Pearson Education to CIO for a start-up in the streaming media space. Sean has his Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of California and a Masters in Business Administration from Seattle University. Sean was born and raised in New York City and has lived in various places around the world including Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco and the UK. He currently lives in New York with his wife and six year old daughter. He likes fitness including martial arts and skiing. He rides a Triumph Thruxton and plays upright bass.

From their Sessionize speaker profile, 2023

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2023

Guidance paperScaling Automated Governance

with Jason Cox, Christina Yakomin & 7 others

2021

TalkDevOps for Pandemics

US 2021 · 30 min