Jim A. Laredo is an IBM Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research, in Yorktown, NY. He leads the API Economy agenda with efforts around API management, API consumption, SaaS enablement for self service and ecosystem development. His interests have been in BPM research, SaaS platforms and multi-tenancy. Earlier in his career he was on the early stages of startups Vitria Technology and Transarc. He graduated from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela and has a MSc. in Computer Science from University of Toronto in Canada. He holds 25 patents.