About Us
Get to know our highly accomplished and talented team
Our Team
Who We Are
The Seventyeight team is comprised of highly accomplished and talented folks specializing in digital strategy, data management, technical development, and creative design - providing the competencies, agility and technical bandwidth to manage complex deliverables. We can offer time to market, competitive rates and a level of responsiveness that traditional firms can't touch. We believe there is an effective solution to meet most budgets and can help you navigate the strategic & technical complexities to achieve your key business objectives.
Core Team
Grant Sharples
Principal / Managing Director
As Managing Director, Grant brings a unique blend of business intelligence, strategic insight and technology expertise to every client engagement - directing the formulation of strategic solutions and preferred tactics to ensure key objectives are effectively addressed.
Grant has an impressive track record of delivering innovative solutions including learning management and auditing systems in support of clinical trials, complex healthcare knowledge management software platforms, consumer data acquisition and social media activations for the film and entertainment industry, and enterprise systems integration and automation projects for clients such as Intel.
Prior to forming Seventyeight Digital in 2010, Grant held a number of senior management positions in marketing and communications, operations, and account management, within the technology and media sectors. His technical expertise includes system and information architecture, data definition, information management and process design.
Kevin Clarke
Principal / Chief Technology Officer
With over 15 years of experience in application development, including senior management positions with a leading Toronto Internet development firm, Kevin applies a strong business focus and has a proven track record of developing appropriate technology solutions to meet business goals.
As Chief Technology Officer, Kevin is responsible for managing the evaluation, recommendation and implementation of appropriate technologies, platforms, infrastructure and third party components used in products developed by Seventyeight Digital Inc. and technology delivered to external customers.
Kevin is an expert in data design, middle and front-end development, and has experience with a variety of platforms, frameworks and programming languages. He has architected multiple enterprise-level, data driven business applications and continues to push the boundaries into new and emerging technologies including cross-mobile phone development frameworks, data visualization technologies, and custom data system interfaces.
Ramazan Aksoy
Senior Developer
Ramazan has a talent for creating elegant coding solutions to manage complex business logic in a highly extensible and sustainable fashion. His talents have been instrumental in the technical design and development of enterprise level multi-tier cross platform web applications of all shapes and sizes since 1998.
Jason Fowler
Senior Project Manager
Jason has developed an exceptional reputation as a talented project manager with particular expertise in requirements analysis and technical documentation, process flow, usability and information architecture and quality assurance processes. He is equally comfortable working within PMP and Agile methodologies dependent upon what approach serves the project and client best.
Alex Chiu
Senior Designer
Alex is responsible for leading our creative process and overseeing all elements related to layout and design to ensure an engaging, cohesive and on-brand user experience.
Alex is an accomplished creative professional with over 12 years' experience with particular expertise in branding and print design, UX/UI, digital media, game design, mobile apps, animation and ecommerce.
Alex's experience spans a broad spectrum of commercial, government, NGO and non-profit organizations including work with such prestigious multinational brands as Disney, Entertainment One, LG, Canon, Bosch, Meile and Samsung.