Jerome Shimizu
Co-Founder & CEO at ABCS Insights
Jerome Shimizu is a three-time founder, award-winning inventor, and one of the top data scientists in the United States. As CEO and Co-Founder of ABCS Insights, he is shaping the next generation of advertising measurement, filing new patents and advancing the company’s proprietary ABCS Framework for Advertising Effectiveness.
Previously, Jerome co-founded Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NLSN) and served as Chief Research Officer at both InsightExpress and Kantar Millward Brown. Earlier in his career he led the back office for Nielsen Market Decisions and was involved in 2003 in the industry’s pioneering “look-alike-model” brought to market via Yahoo! Consumer Direct. Throughout his career, he has been a driving force behind some of the largest media outcome platforms in the industry—platforms that influence, optimize, and reallocate billions of advertising dollars and trillions of impressions each year.
An inventor at the forefront of advertising analytics, Jerome holds critical patents in ad measurement technology. His innovations—cited by Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, IBM, Adobe, Alibaba, American Express, Mastercard, AT&T, JPMorgan, and
others—have been acquired by major industry players including Kantar and Citibank.
Jerome graduated with honors in Economics from the University of Chicago, one of only a handful of students to earn the distinction under the guidance of renowned economist D. Gale Johnson and Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas.