Rachael Tachie-Menson

Rachael Tachie-Menson is a product leader, strategist and ecosystem architect who has spent nearly two decades building products and businesses at the intersection of technology, people and growth. Her career spans some of the world's most influential technology companies, including Meta, Amazon, LinkedIn, Yahoo and WeWork, as well as startups across North America and Africa. She has built and scaled products from zero to one and led multi-billion-dollar product portfolios across AI, marketplaces, B2B/SaaS and consumer technology.

Today, Rachael is the Founder and Managing Partner of Author Digital Labs, a product strategy and growth studio helping companies turn ambitious ideas into products people actually want, use and pay for. Beyond ADL, she works as an ecosystem architect, identifying gaps in the product and technology landscape and building the programs, platforms and partnerships to address them.

She is an active voice in the startup ecosystem, judging startup competitions, speaking at industry events and sharing product thinking shaped by her experience building across both Africa and the US. Rachael's interests also extend to women's health and African wellness, particularly the intersection between the two and what wellness looks like when rooted in African context, culture and lived experience.

She is a graduate of Stanford University and Northwestern University, where she earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an MS in Engineering, Design Innovation.

At TEDxAccra, Rachael explores the conundrum of suffering: a counterintuitive idea that some of the experiences we work hardest to avoid may develop the very qualities that allow us to thrive. Through resilience, adaptation and perspective, adversity can become more than something we endure. It can change what we believe we are capable of.