Grant PowellFounder

United States - Austin, Texas,

A 20-year digital veteran with a deep understanding of technology, digital product & user experience, digital advertising, SEO and social media. A strategic and thoughtful leader with a track record of building highly effective teams in the most demanding environments. Ability to combine creativity, engineering and business savvy to develop results-driven approaches to new-world demands. Trusted by Fortune 500 brands and the world’s largest real estate developers.

Founder of Pomegranate (digital agency), with a client roster that includes: Google, Spotify, Coca-Cola, Disney, Porsche, Dun & Bradstreet, American Express and many more Fortune 1000 brands.

Pomegranate was chosen by Google as their first, flagship “agency partner” for 6 years running.

Developed and launched the first-ever live streaming event on YouTube (in partnership with Google). The event starred U2, and was the largest-ever online streaming event at that time with over 1.2 million concurrent viewers. The live event featured a first-of-its-kind social media chat application that Pomegranate developed to aggregate and publish conversations through API integrations on Twitter and Facebook. Launched additional live streaming events including: Alicia Keys, Coachella, Paul McCartney and many more.

Developed the first-ever web application to integrate with Spotify’s API. Using the integration, built a proprietary algorithm for matching users based on their taste in music.

Developed the first-ever peer-to-peer secured lending platform. Succeeded in getting the site to rank on page 1 of Google searches for the top-most competitive keywords in its vertical (still ranking to date).

Developed the digital marketing strategy and website for the world's tallest residential building. The recorded sales totaled more than $2 billion, the largest total dollar volume of initial unit closings in any single residential project in New York City's history.

Founding member of the platinum-selling rock band, Lifehouse, and Dawes, whom the Rolling Stone magazine labeled "authentically vintage".

#1 numismatist on Google in the United States.