Lara M. Oerter
Vice President, North America Higher Education Strategy & Operations
Blackboard, Inc.
Partnering with our 1600+ higher education clients, Blackboard has the opportunity to support institutions in their missions to engage students and assess their learning. In this session, we will discuss our product strategy and roadmap. We will share key highlights of Project NG
- our initiative to launch our Next Generation solution that combines the best of Blackboard and WebCT with a new Web 2.0 user experience via an open platform that supports easy integration via industry standards.
About Lara:
Partnering with Peter Segall (President North America Higher Education), Lara has management responsibility and oversight for all aspects of Blackboard’s North America Higher Education academic business and operations, including sales, client management, marketing, services and product strategy. Lara brings to this role six years of experience in a variety of operational and strategic roles at Blackboard including sales operations, product marketing, company strategy and product management.
Prior to her role at Blackboard, Lara was a product manager for USinternetworking, one of the leading Application Service Providers for critical business applications. Lara was also an operations consultant with Deloitte Consulting, specializing in financial services and telecommunications. Lara received her bachelor's degree in Government from Georgetown University and her MBA from Harvard Business School.