Merline is an international technology executive, business advisor, and operations expert, having distinguished herself as a leader in fast growing sectors of cloud computing, mobile, online payments and commerce. Merline recently joined Intuit as Head of Operations for the Office of the CTO. In this role, she starts a new journey to help bring her wealth of experience to drive operational rigor and excellence to Intuit’s technology efforts. She was the head of Global Engineering Operations for the Mobile & Emerging Products at Yahoo where she was part of their massive platform shift to mobile. She has been involved in the process of creating software as well as managing global teams to produce world-class products in a variety of positions at Sun Microsystems, Adobe, PayPal and Joyent, Inc.
Merline received her B.S. in Computer Science from Florida A&M University, Summa Cum Laude. She also attended Stanford University where she completed an Executive Education Program in Management Science & Engineering and completed her M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to her business interests, Merline is also passionate about mentoring and is an advisor on the first mobile app challenge for high school students sponsored by the US House of Representatives. 

She was recently appointed to the Watermark Board of Directors and continues to co-lead the COO C-Suite for Watermark. She also serves on the Alumni Board of Directors at Carnegie Mellon University and was the former President of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter for Carnegie Mellon University."