VP Developer Platform, Alcatel-Lucent
The use of APIs as an internal and external business growth tool is rapidly moving from a novel concept to a business imperative. Laura Merling is a thought leader in this fast-changing environment. She has worked in the trenches with executives and developers in markets ranging from telecom and media to travel and retail, helping them develop tailor strategies that maximize the benefits of API publishing.
Laura currently leads strategy and execution for Alcatel-Lucent’s companywide push to transform the network into a powerful platform for service providers, enterprises and developers to deliver applications. She was most recently VP of Sales and Marketing at Mashery, one of the earliest entrants in the API management infrastructure industry. Over a more than 20 year career in high tech marketing and business development, Laura also served as Executive Director at SDForum, where she managed the largest non-profit developer community in the U.S. and established key relationships with organizations such as eBay that built successful, global businesses by opening up their APIs to third-party partners and developers. At Krugle, Laura drove deals with some of the world’s largest and most active developer networks, including IBM developerWorks, Amazon Web Services, and SourceForge.net, establishing Krugle as the leader in code search for open source and the enterprise.
