Ranjan Roy

Ranjan Roy is VP, Industry Lead for Retail at WRITER, where he works with leading retail and consumer brands to turn AI strategy into practical applications across marketing, merchandising, and store operations. He advises CMOs and leadership teams across a diverse range of enterprise customers, helping them build and deploy AI agents that address their businesses’ specific challenges. Before joining Writer, Ranjan served as SVP of Strategy at Adore Me, where he helped scale the brand from $70 million to more than $300 million in revenue and supported its acquisition by Victoria’s Secret.

As a WRTIER customer himself, he pioneered generative AI in retail, automating product descriptions across more than 2,900 products in multiple languages and cutting market launch time from months to ten days. His experience spans both implementing AI within a growing retail business and helping global enterprises navigate adoption at scale. Earlier in his career, he co-founded the NLP-powered news personalization startup Informerly and held roles at the Financial Times and Bank of America. Named a Vogue Business Top 100 Innovator in 2024, Ranjan also co-authors Margins, a newsletter with more than 35,000 subscribers exploring how technology shapes business and society. He is a regular contributor to the Big Technology Podcast, offering analysis on AI, market dynamics, and the forces reshaping the technology industry.