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The Stockroom, Inc., the leading source for quality BDSM gear and fetish fashion, has named Yuko Shiroma as Product Manager. She will be based in the company's Los Angeles headquarters.
Prior to joining The Stockroom, Ms. Shiroma was a product manager at MySpace, where she had a wide range of responsibilities directed at translating business objectives and vision into the conception and execution of new products. Among her initiatives at MySpace were the development of a content management platform focused on restaurants and app games; refining and extending user account settings features; and the launch of over 30 international versions of the MySpace site. She was also the liaison for the company in a joint venture with Japanese telecommunications company Softbank to launch MySpace products in Japan.
"Yuko brings us in-depth experience in the art of bringing product ideas to life," said Mike Herman, president of The Stockroom, Inc. "We are fortunate to have a storehouse of concepts for new products and services already at our disposal. Yuko will take ownership of these initiatives, beginning with The Stockroom itself, and then branching out into other projects we have in development."
A former forensic accountant, Ms. Shiroma's background also includes working in the digital coloring and design of such top comic book properties as Spiderman, Ghostbusters, GI Joe and others. Currently she has an apprenticeship with comic artist Dave Johnson and is also working on the art and storyline of her own adult comic, slated for release in 2011. Inspired by the serial story-telling format of The Arabian Nights, the comic is, as described by Shiroma, "a pornographic globe-trotting chase story about self-discovery." Shiroma is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she majored in sociology, and she is bilingual in Japanese and English.
About Stockroom, Inc.:
Stockroom, Inc. is the world's leading supplier of fetish clothing and bondage toys. An e-commerce pioneer, Joel Tucker founded the company in 1988, and took it online in 1989. Today, The Stockroom operates from a three-story, 30,000 square foot workshop and retail space on Los Angeles' legendary Sunset Boulevard. The vertically integrated facility combines leather and latex production, shipping, receiving and warehousing with design, executive and sales offices and a retail boutique that was awarded "Best Fetish Store" by Los Angeles magazine. The company's main retail site, Stockroom.com, was recognized as Web Retailer of the Year in the 2009 XBiz Awards, and their men's retail site, MaleStockroom.com, was chosen as Best Adult Novelties Site of 2009 by users of influential LGBT web resource Cybersocket. The Stockroom's sexy fetish gear has appeared on television shows like HBO's "True Blood"; Playboy TV's "Foursome" and on TMZ.
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