Terrace, BC · Kitselas Territory
Kaden Ewald
Builder, operator, systems thinker.
I build systems — for businesses, for growth, for understanding how things work. Today I run Grow Wild Agency. Before that: a hemp farm, DeFi protocols, and growth for consumer brands.
About
I grew up where the Skeena River meets the Coast Mountains — a small Northern town that teaches you to figure things out because there's no one else to call.
That instinct runs through everything since: raising capital and building agricultural infrastructure, writing DAO governance frameworks, leading growth for consumer brands, and now running an agency. Different domains, same impulse — complex systems with a lot of moving parts, and the work of making them run.
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On the ground with GATE.
A few moments from my Florida trip: visiting GATE Express Carwash and a GATE gas station, and joining The GATE Foundation charity golf event.
Experience
- 2023–now
Grow Wild AgencyFounder
Enterprise digital marketing and development for multi-location businesses — the marketing and the infrastructure underneath it.
- 2022
Casa LeoCMO
Ran the full growth stack for a consumer brand: positioning, paid media, content, and conversion.
- 2020
Weavr & Fractional FinanceDeFi
DAO governance, tokenomics, and decentralized finance protocols built in public.
- 2019
Kemano CCSFounder
A 30-acre hemp operation in Manitoba. Raised $1.2M from private investors and ran it end to end.
- Earlier
Trinity Western UniversityMBA
Started in pre-med, finished with an MBA in Accounting and Marketing. Grew up in Terrace, BC.
The through-line
“I'm drawn to systems — understanding how things connect, where the leverage is, and what it takes to make something work at scale.”
Writing
Techcouver
Your startup's first impression is now a machine's summary
The first description of your product a customer reads is increasingly written by a model. Three moves for startups: check what machines can see, write the page you want quoted, and get cited by someone who is not you.
Building Tools Inside an Agency
Every tool we've built at Grow Wild started as something breaking in our own week. That's a better origin story than a product idea, and it comes with a cost nobody mentions.
Managing SEO Across 21 Locations: Systems, Not Heroics
What I learned running local SEO for GATE Express Car Wash across 21 locations in Northeast Florida. The work that moved the numbers was almost entirely unglamorous.
GEO: What Changes When the Answer Isn't a List
Generative engine optimization isn't a replacement for SEO. It's a second scoreboard sitting next to the first one, and most enterprise brands aren't looking at it yet.
Fishing, mountains, and the occasional jump out of a plane.
Contact
Let's build something.
Always up for a good conversation — about systems, about building, about the north. The fastest way to reach me is email.