Rachel Fournier

Rachel Fournier is Senior Director, AI & Digital Innovation at Vera Therapeutics, where she helps shape the company’s approach to AI and emerging digital technologies. Drawing on experience across biotechnology, healthcare, and technology companies, she brings a cross-industry perspective to how AI can be translated from rapidly evolving capabilities into practical business value. Her work focuses on identifying high-value AI opportunities, enabling responsible adoption, and helping teams apply new technologies in ways that improve decision-making, productivity, and innovation. Rachel is particularly interested in what biotech can learn from the technology sector while adapting those approaches to the unique scientific, operational, and regulatory realities of biopharma. She approaches AI transformation as both a technology and organizational challenge, connecting business needs, people, and scalable solutions to help organizations move from experimentation to meaningful adoption.