Index001 / Portfolio
BasedToronto, ON · EST
PracticeBrand · Product · Ops
YearMMXXVI

Designing products. Growing brands. Playing Basketball.

Creative Director. Product Designer. Brand Operator. Seventeen years designing at the intersection of brand, product, and live experience — with an operator's bias for shipping.

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About

A builder, working at range.

Creative direction for brands. Product design for software. Operations for live experiences. Most people pick one. I build the connective tissue between them.

Jeffrey Ace Fulgar — better known as ACE — is a Creative Director and Brand Operator based in Toronto, focused on building scalable brand ecosystems across sports, culture, and community.

He leads strategy and execution across campaigns, content, and live experiences — bridging brand vision with real-world impact. His edge comes from understanding both design and business, both culture and systems, both vision and execution.

17
Years in practice
2
National Sports Ecosystems
6
Core disciplines
courts walked
Experience

Roles, rooms, receipts.

Director and founding team roles across basketball, fintech, and culture. Every role is a place I've built a team, shaped a thing, or answered a phone at 2am.

2023 — PresentNorth Pole HoopsDirector, Strategy & Creative Operations
2025 — PresentRise Up Basketball LeagueDirector, Brand & Technology
2017 — 2025HXOUSECreative Specialist & Mentor
2016 — 2025CIBC / Credit Sesame / STACK Fintech Inc.Director of Design & Product Leadership
2008 — 2016Early CareerCreative & Media Foundations
Work

Case studies, in brief.

A slice of the last decade — brand ecosystems, product launches, and the occasional 23-market rollout. Tap a card to open the deep-dive.

NPH / National Basketball
Canada's basketball home.

North Pole Hoops

Brand & Operations
2023-Present
Case Study
Banking with momentum.

STACK Fintech

Product Design
2016–2022
RUBL / League Platform
A league built for the next era.

Rise Up Basketball

Brand · Platform
2025–Present
HXOUSE / Culture
Mentoring the next wave.

HXOUSE

Culture · Mentorship
2017 — 2025
Ecosystems

Two ecosystems. One operator.

The career splits into two deep practices: Sports, where brand meets the floor. Fintech, where design meets the ledger. Both require the same thing: clarity under pressure.

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Sports Ecosystem

Seventeen years inside basketball — building the brand, the product, and the operations that make leagues, events, and media properties actually run.

  • Markets activated20+
  • National championships directed4/yr
  • Athletes in ecosystem / 10,000K+
  • Partner brands10+
02

Fintech & Product

Founding product designer at STACK. Director-level design leadership across CIBC, Credit Sesame, and STACK — scaling consumer fintech from zero-to-millions.

  • Users served3M+
  • Products Launched6
  • Design Systems Built4
  • Teams Scaled11 -> 40