Executive Management Team
GrapeCity's management team has extensive experience in the technology industry, from management, business, and project development, to customer relations in the United States and around the world. All team members share the GrapeCity philosophy of providing top-quality products and services tailored to our clients' specific needs, in accordance with proven best practices and the highest ethical standards.
Joshua Broman
Chief Creative Officer, WINEstudios
"We combine our creative skills with our passion for effective education—and knowing what kids like—to create the highest quality educational materials that will appeal to students, their parents, and teaching staff"
As Executive Producer of GrapeCity's state-of-the-art media design and digital production facility, Joshua Broman has built WINEstudios into the leading full-service production company north of Tokyo. Joshua manages the studio's animators, editors, and production artists, as well as publication design and production staff. He also writes, directs and shoots special projects and is instrumental in administrating the studio expansion goals.
Joshua began his career with GrapeCity in 1985 as a teacher for the premiere K-6 Meysen Academy, founded by GrapeCity executives. His creative skills in photography and design led to additional assignments producing the academy's photo shoots, informational and marketing media, and Meysen brand educational materials. His success with those assignments led to a move into the Meysen design department in 1993. There he devoted all of his time to the growth and technological development of the academy's media capabilities. His projects included video production for the purposes of marketing the unique academy to prospective students and parents, archiving school activities, and enhancing the fun-of-learning experience through entertaining productions for special school events.
In 1996, Joshua expanded the scope of his work when he became a designer and photographer for the GrapeCity design department. There he also developed his expertise in the budding world of computer graphics, 3D animation, and computer-based editing. By 1997, the department had grown in skills and capacity and began producing projects for exclusive external clients. In 2000, Joshua was promoted to Director and assigned to lead the senior graphics design team.
When the growth of its media expertise led GrapeCity to build WINEstudios in 2003, Joshua was named Executive Producer and given the task of managing the showcase facilities housing a sound stage for virtual and staged productions, an audio recording studio, multiple editing and mixing suites, and administrative offices. Under the WINEstudios banner, Joshua has created media for educational institutions, businesses, and governments throughout Asia. He travels throughout the world in his work developing WINEstudios' technology and building client relationships.
"At WINEstudios, we have a broad range of expertise. Our people have extensive backgrounds in television, advertising, and education," says Joshua. "Education is my primary area of expertise, and I'm looking forward to creating exciting, technologically-advanced media products that will both entertain and educate the students at the 3,000 schools that are already using GrapeCity's LeySer software. At WINEstudios, we combine our creative skills with our passion for effective education—and knowing what kids like—to create the highest quality educational materials that will appeal to students, their parents, and teaching staff."
Joshua lives in Sendai, Japan, with his wife, Naomi.