Yusuke Shimomura is Chief Business Officer at Kotoba Technologies, leading product development and go-to-market for speech AI models. He previously served as Executive Officer at PKSHA Technology, where he spearheaded business growth from zero revenue to tens of millions of dollars in sales.

Shimomura started his career at Accenture as a data scientist for financial institutions, building and operating machine learning models. He joined PKSHA Technology in 2015 and launched the PKSHA Chatbot business, expanding into customer support and internal help-desk domains.

At PKSHA Technology, Shimomura served as President of BEDORE Inc., a subsidiary focused on dialogue and voice AI solutions. He led the solution business using natural language processing with full P&L responsibility.

Shimomura scaled PKSHA's dialogue AI and voice AI businesses to serve over 100 enterprise companies, achieving multi-billion yen revenue. He personally achieved initial 20M yen monthly recurring revenue for enterprise AI chatbots.

Under his leadership, PKSHA Technology introduced AI agents to approximately 4,330 companies. At Kotoba Technologies, he established a pipeline of leads from dozens of companies before product release and designed the go-to-market strategy for their 11.83M USD Seed 2 funding round.