r.Potential Names Delphine Bernard as Chief Financial Officer
r.Potential has appointed Delphine Bernard as chief financial officer as the company develops its decision and proof layer for enterprise AI. Bernard brings more than two decades of experience across finance, operations and governance at technology companies and startups.
- Delphine Bernard has joined r.Potential as chief financial officer.
- She previously worked with Uber, Microsoft, Skype and Mars.
- Bernard helped prepare Uber for its $82.4 billion initial public offering.
- r.Potential focuses on measuring and governing enterprise AI deployments.
- The company was founded in 2025 and is headquartered in San Francisco.
A finance and operations role for enterprise AI
Bernard will help r.Potential build the financial and operating systems needed as enterprises move from AI experimentation toward decisions about work, workforce impact and business outcomes.
The company says her appointment adds financial and operating discipline to its mission of helping leaders decide what work goes to AI, what stays with people, and whether those decisions produced the expected results. That focus places measurement and governance alongside AI investment and deployment.
“Enterprises are at a point where AI ambition must be matched by operating discipline,” Bernard said in the company announcement. She added that r.Potential's focus is on decisions that can be measured, governed and defended, rather than adoption for its own sake.
Experience across major technology transactions
Bernard's career includes work in capital allocation, operational restructuring, commercial model design, international expansion and corporate governance. 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, she served as CFO of venture-backed companies from Series A through Series E. Those companies included Branded, an e-commerce platform, and H2O.ai, an enterprise AI platform. At H2O.ai, according to r.Potential, she restructured operations, improved unit economics, raised capital and executed multiple acquisitions.
Her responsibilities have also extended beyond finance. Bernard has held a chief technology officer role with responsibility for product and technology alongside finance. She was also interim chief executive officer of Kinship, the digital division of Mars Petcare, with full profit and loss responsibility during a leadership transition. She previously sat on the board of Uber Freight and advises several early-stage startups.
What r.Potential is building
r.Potential describes itself as the decision and proof layer for enterprise AI and the creator of the Unit of Potential, which it calls the first assessment tool for measuring AI deployments. The company says its platform helps leaders determine which work should go to AI, which work should remain with people, and whether the change delivered results.
The platform is built around the company's proprietary view of companies, roles, tasks, skills and enterprise AI deployment. It creates what r.Potential calls a governed record, from the first estimate through the measured outcome.
Founded in 2025 and headquartered in San Francisco, r.Potential is backed by The Adecco Group and Salesforce. CEO Greg Shewmaker said Bernard's combination of financial rigor and experience in technology, operations and governance fits the company's work with enterprises on changing jobs, workforce effects and evidence of results.
For users and enterprise buyers, the appointment signals that r.Potential is emphasizing the operating and governance questions surrounding AI adoption, not only the selection of AI tools. The company says Bernard will help build the foundation for turning AI investment into durable value for businesses and their people.
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