Biography

Grant Powell is a technology entrepreneur, digital product strategist, and user experience expert with more than 20 years of experience building technology-based businesses, brands, and digital products. He has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies, helping global brands translate emerging technology, consumer behavior, and business objectives into high-performing digital experiences.

Grant's career has been defined by innovation, early market insight, and category firsts. He helped build the first versions of Jeans.com, developed and launched the first-ever live streaming concert on YouTube in partnership with Google, and created one of the earliest applications to integrate with Spotify's API. His work spans digital strategy, product development, user experience, engineering, digital marketing, SEO, social media, and advertising for companies including Google, Spotify, Coca-Cola, Disney, Porsche, Dun & Bradstreet, American Express, and many others.

As the founder of Pomegranate, a digital agency selected by Google as its first flagship agency partner for six consecutive years, Grant built and led high-performing teams in demanding, fast-moving environments.

His work with Google included the launch of YouTube's first live concert streaming event, featuring U2, which became the largest online streaming event of its time with more than 1.2 million concurrent viewers. The project also featured a first-of-its-kind social media chat application that aggregated and published real-time conversations through Twitter and Facebook API integrations. Grant and his team went on to support additional live streaming events for artists and festivals including Alicia Keys, Coachella, and Paul McCartney.

Grant served as Chief Innovation Officer at Carnegie Technologies, where he played a key role in conceptualizing, building, and ultimately selling Triller — the social media and short-form video app — to Ryan Kavanaugh.

Grant has founded and built multiple technology startups across marketplaces, social platforms, creator tools, and AI. These include YouPawn, the first-ever peer-to-peer pawning app and website; Curiously, a music-matching dating app designed to connect people through shared taste; Curios, a creator content marketplace; and Collectibles.AI, an AI platform developing tools for collectors.

Across these ventures, Grant has demonstrated a consistent ability to identify emerging markets, build differentiated digital products, and turn ambitious ideas into functioning businesses.

Grant developed the digital marketing strategy and website for 432 Park Avenue, the world's tallest residential building at the time, contributing to a sales program that recorded more than $2 billion in initial unit closings. He also developed the first peer-to-peer secured lending platform and achieved page-one Google rankings for some of the most competitive keywords in its vertical.

Grant was a founding member of the platinum-selling rock band Lifehouse, as well as Dawes, which Rolling Stone described as "authentically vintage." He is also recognized as the #1 numismatist on Google in the United States.

Outside of work, Grant is an avid crystal and mineral collector with a deep appreciation for rare, naturally formed objects. His favorite workout sport is rock climbing.