David Jou

Co-Founder & CEO, Pomelo

Industry : Business

David Jou can be considered the Father of Online Fashion shopping. Before Pomelo, he was co-founder of Lazada Thailand, which began the country’s fascination with online shopping. His background in the NY private equity industry inspired him to launch his own business, and he was ahead of the game in digital
marketing. Not so surprising, since he had already launched his own business as a student at Amherst College, Massachusetts, providing logistics, storage and shipping services for fellow university students. With nine student dormitories in his network, he was kept quite busy. His next student business was selling used uni textbooks. His businesses were conducted on Facebook which had only been launched a year earlier. He chose Thailand for his own start-up after considering the e-commerce potential and the
growth of smartphones. Under his leadership, Pomelo is not only the region’s leading online fashion retailer, delivering to over 50 countries, it also plans to expand its physical outlets, and offer a B2B consultancy service for fashion and lifestyle brands.