About Camille Fournier

Camille Fournier is an experienced leader with the unique combination of deep technical expertise, executive leadership, and engineering management. Strong, proven experience scaling systems, teams, and companies. She loves solving challenging engineering problems, growing businesses, and leading teams, and is passionate about creating environments that encourage growth and creativity. As a technical executive overseeing hundreds of employees, she is highly skilled at bridging the gap between engineering and business, capable of both tactically improving execution of technical organizations and seeing the big picture to point the way for them to scale and evolve. Camille Fournier is known for being the former chief technology officer of Rent The Runway, former vice president of technology at Goldman Sachs, and author of The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change. She is a managing director at JPMorgan Chase. Camille Fournier earned her bachelor's degree in computer science 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. 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 a vice president of technology. In 2011, Camille Fournier joined the startup Rent the Runway as the director of engineering, and in 2014 she became the company's chief technology officer. She resigned from her chief position in 2015. Camille Fournier writes the Ask The CTO column for O'Reilly Media. In 2017, she published a book titled The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change. In 2019, she published a book as the editor titled