Roi Shigematsu

Roi graduated from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Engineering, and also earned his graduate degree from the University of Tokyo. He worked at McKinsey & Company’s Tokyo, Frankfurt, and Chicago offices, and became a partner in 2016. While at McKinsey, he led AI and IoT initiatives, serving clients across a variety of industries, supporting them with AI application and commercialization. He founded Fashion Pocket in 2018, with the vision to innovate the fashion and lifestyle industry using a variety of AI tools, such as merchandising optimization through computer vision and demand prediction, in-store efficiency improvement, and in-store customer analytics.