Camille Fournier

Camille Fournier is the former chief technology officer of Rent The Runway and former vice president of technology at Goldman Sachs.[1]

Career

Fournier earned her bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating, she worked at Microsoft for 18 months. In 2005, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a master's degree in computer science.[2][3] She moved on to work at Goldman Sachs in New York for over six years, originally as an engineer working on credit risk software and eventually as the vice president of technology.[1]

In 2011, Fournier joined the startup Rent the Runway as the director of engineering, and in 2014 she became the company's chief technology officer.[1][4] She resigned from her position in 2015[5][6]

Fournier is a maintainer of the Apache ZooKeeper open source project, writes the Ask The CTO column for O'Reilly Media,[7] and remains a prominent public speaker and advocate for greater diversity within technology and leadership.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Shontell, Alyson (November 13, 2014). "How A Former Goldman Sachs VP Became CTO Of A ~$750 Million Startup". Business Insider. Business Insider Inc. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Fashion Tech Talk: Rent The Runway’s Camille Fournier". Decoded Fashion. 23 January 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. 1 2 Korzekwa, Kaine. "Camille Fournier". University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate School. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  4. ↑ Pratt, Mary K. (15 June 2015). "Rent the Runway's CTO says a strong engineering department turns dreams into reality". Computerworld. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  5. ↑ Roberts, Daniel, "Exclusive: What’s behind the exodus from Rent the Runway?", "Fortune", Nov 17, 2015
  6. ↑ Kosoff, Maya, "Why executives are fleeing $500 million startup Rent the Runway", "Business Insider", November 17, 2015
  7. ↑
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