Brian Otten specializes in the field of API strategy and management, including operational API full lifecycle management, API design, and business alignment for API adoption. His work emphasizes API-First methodologies, productization and monetization of APIs, organizational change management for APIs, data architecture, microservices strategy, domain-driven design, and readiness/maturity of API delivery teams. As Generative AI increasingly impacts API technology, he advises on MCP, A2A and AI development approaches for APIs. Additionally, Brian is well-versed in semantics and metadata including ontologies (OWL/RDF) and related concepts. Brian always aims to help senior leaders reframe thinking around API business and technical success, bridging the two to help organizations avoid pitfalls and reduce cost and effort.
As a founding member and VP of Axway's Catalyst team, Brian provided thought leadership to help organizations build their digital ecosystems with APIs. He guided leaders and Centers of Excellence in their adoption of API management strategy, practice, and technology while coaching them on new ways to work with planning and execution of organizational change, and conveyed insights through speaking engagements at world-class industry events.
Axway, VP API Strategy, 7 years
digitalML, Chief Customer Officer, 4 years
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, VP Information Architecture, 4 years
Barclays Capital, VP Data Architecture, 2 years
MSc in Geographical Information Systems - University of Leicester (1993)
B.A. in History (cum laude) - Boston University (1990)
Formulating an API strategy; How to measure API adoption and success; How to operationalize API governance; How to make APIs widely available internally and externally; API and AI interoperability