Press Release · r.Potential
r.Potential Appoints Delphine Bernard as Chief Financial Officer
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Global finance and operations executive brings experience from Uber, Microsoft, Skype, and Mars to the decision-and-proof layer for enterprise AI.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11, 2026 — r.Potential, the decision-and-proof layer for enterprise AI, today announced that Delphine Bernard has joined the company as CFO. Bernard brings more than two decades of experience building the financial, operating, and governance systems that help technology businesses scale through periods of rapid growth and transformation.
As enterprises move from AI experimentation to consequential decisions about work, they face a harder question than which tools to adopt: how to connect investment, work design, workforce impact, and measurable business outcomes. Bernard's appointment adds deep financial and operating discipline to r.Potential's mission to help leaders decide what work goes to AI, what stays with people, and prove afterward whether the call was right.
"Enterprises are at a point where AI ambition must be matched by operating discipline. What drew me to r.Potential is its focus on decisions that can be measured, governed, and defended — not adoption for its own sake. I am excited to help build the foundation that enables the company and its customers to turn AI investment into durable value for both the business and its people."
— Delphine Bernard, Chief Financial Officer, r.Potential
Bernard has worked across capital allocation, operational restructuring, commercial model design, international expansion and corporate governance. Her career includes two of the technology industry's defining transactions: she played a key role in Skype's $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft and helped prepare Uber for its $82.4 billion initial public offering.
More recently, Bernard has served as CFO of venture-backed companies from Series A through Series E, including Branded, an e-commerce platform, and H2O.ai, an enterprise AI platform, where she restructured operations, improved unit economics, brought financial discipline, raised capital and executed multiple acquisitions. Bernard's scope has regularly extended beyond finance. She has held the Chief Technology Officer role, owning product and technology alongside finance, and stepped in as interim Chief Executive Officer of Kinship, the digital division of Mars Petcare, with full P&L responsibility through a leadership transition. She previously sat on the board of Uber Freight and advises several early-stage startups.
"Delphine has spent her career building the systems behind consequential moments — acquisitions, an IPO, operating transformations and leadership transitions. She combines financial rigor with a deep understanding of technology, operations and governance. That is exactly the combination r.Potential needs as we help enterprises decide what work changes, how people are affected and what counts as proof."
— Greg Shewmaker, Chief Executive Officer, r.Potential
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r.Potential is the decision and proof layer for enterprise AI and the creators of the Unit of Potential, the first assessment tool for measuring AI deployments. Backed by The Adecco Group and Salesforce, the company helps leaders decide what work goes to AI, what stays with people, and prove whether the change delivered results. Its platform is built on a proprietary view of companies, roles, tasks, skills, and enterprise AI deployment, and creates a governed record from the first estimate to the measured outcome. r.Potential was founded in 2025 and is headquartered in San Francisco.
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