APIContext, the leader in machine-first resilience monitoring, has appointed Lelah Manz as Chair of its Board of Directors.
Manz previously served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Data and Shared Services at Akamai Technologies, where she led a global team delivering data, AI, and shared platform capabilities. Over her nearly two-decade tenure at Akamai, she played a pivotal role in the company’s transformation from a $250M CDN provider to a $4B global platform in security, compute, and data services.
Manz’s appointment follows APIContext’s deepening collaboration with Akamai, marked by the recent launch of a managed API performance service built on the APIContext platform. This service combines proactive testing, expert analysis, and tailored optimisation to ensure APIs remain fast, reliable, and compliant across today’s complex digital environments. In a statement about the partnership last month, Patrick Sullivan, CTO of Security Strategy at Akamai said, “APIs are now the heartbeat of businesses. Keeping them fast, resilient, and standards-aligned is a competitive advantage.”
With a deep understanding of the B2B technology ecosystem and global go-to-market, Lelah’s guidance will expand strategic relationships. Her experience driving innovation across product, engineering, and sales organisations adds capacity to build on APIContext’s accelerating growth.
“Lelah joining as Chair is a pivotal step as we scale APIContext from a product into a category-defining platform,” said Mayur Upadhyaya, CEO of APIContext. “Her leadership at Akamai shaped how the internet is delivered. Now she’ll help us shape how it’s verified. Machine-driven traffic already dominates digital services, and the world needs a new signal layer. Together, we’re building it.”
Manz said, “I’m thrilled to join APIContext at such a pivotal time. APIContext’s technology plays a critical role in enabling reliability, visibility, and performance at scale. I’ve seen firsthand the need for better application resilience, and I’m excited to join a team with such a compelling product, vision, and track record of execution.”
