Experience

Grant began his professional career at Google, one of the largest and most influential technology companies in the world. As a Digital Strategist, he built a deep and rigorous understanding of search marketing, digital advertising infrastructure, and the emerging science of measuring online audience behavior at scale.

The experience of working inside Google provided an intellectual foundation that shaped everything that followed — a fluency with data-driven decision-making, a belief in the measurability of creative work, and a first-hand view of how the internet was restructuring the economics of attention. His time there also established the relationship that would later make Pomegranate Google's inaugural flagship agency partner for six consecutive years.

In 2009, Grant founded Pomegranate — originally known as Aixen — as a digital agency and startup incubator. Over six years, he built it into a nationally recognized practice serving some of the world's most demanding clients: Google, Spotify, Coca-Cola, Disney, Porsche, Dun & Bradstreet, and American Express.

The agency's relationship with Google culminated in Pomegranate being named Google's inaugural flagship agency partner, a distinction it held for six consecutive years — longer than any other independent agency in the program.

Under Grant's leadership, the team produced a series of recognized industry firsts: the first live-streamed concert on YouTube, featuring U2 and Alicia Keys and drawing over 1.2 million concurrent viewers; and the first web application built on Spotify's API, using a proprietary music-matching algorithm to connect users through shared taste — a concept that anticipated the music-social category by several years.

Pomegranate also served as the incubation vehicle for a portfolio of startups, including YouPawn® (the first peer-to-peer secured lending platform), Curiously®, Seeding™, Vestors™, and RealSite®. The agency has since evolved into Powell Digital, continuing under the Powell Corporation umbrella.

Grant joined DBOX Digital as a Member and Director of Digital, bringing his strategic and technical expertise to one of the most respected agencies in luxury real estate and architectural marketing. DBOX was known for its cinematic visual standards and its relationships with the world's most prestigious property developers and architects.

His most significant engagement was 432 Park Avenue — at the time the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most ambitious luxury real estate developments in New York City's history. The digital strategy and marketing presence Grant developed for the project contributed to sales exceeding $2 billion, a landmark result that demonstrated the commercial power of integrated digital positioning in the ultra-luxury market.

As Vice President of Digital Strategy at 5W Public Relations, Grant led the integration of digital disciplines into one of New York's most results-oriented PR practices. 5WPR was known for its intensity, its client roster, and its belief that public relations should be measured by business outcomes — not coverage volume.

During Grant's tenure, 5WPR was named PR Agency of the Year by the American Business Awards — a recognition that reflected the elevated level of strategic integration across earned, owned, and digital channels that Grant helped architect.