Meet Vaxess

Rachel Sha

Chief Executive Officer

Rachel has spent more than 20 years working for large biopharma companies, including Novartis, Genzyme, and Sanofi. Prior to Vaxess, Rachel served as Operating Partner at Engine Ventures. Rachel spent a decade at Sanofi, where she served in a number of leadership roles across the organization in business development, strategy, commercial, in medical devices, therapeutics and digital. In her last role as vice president of digital strategy, partnering, and governance at the company, Sha led negotiations and deal execution, signed major deals that ranged hundreds to billions in deal size, collaborating with big tech, startups, and payers and helped shape the digital transformation of the company. Rachel holds a MBA from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.