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Evangel (Ev) Oputa is an entrepreneur, builder, systems thinker and speaker, and the founder of Begine Fusion and co-founder of OnStack AI Labs.
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Evangel (Ev) Oputa
Entrepreneur. Builder. Systems Thinker. Speaker.
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Evangel (Ev) Oputa is the founder of Begine Fusion, a Calgary-based digital adoption and growth company, and co-founder of OnStack AI Labs, an applied AI lab in Calgary. He has more than 13 years of experience across IT, financial services, fintech, marketing and nonprofits, helping leaders build the business systems, workflows and AI capability their organizations need to grow. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Affinity Mentorship Foundation.
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Evangel (Ev) Oputa is an entrepreneur, builder, systems thinker and speaker. He is the founder of Begine Fusion, a Calgary-based digital adoption and growth company, and co-founder of OnStack AI Labs, an applied AI lab in Calgary. He has more than 13 years of experience across IT, financial services, fintech, marketing and nonprofits, helping leaders build the business systems, workflows and AI capability their organizations need to grow.
Begine Fusion began in Lagos in 2013 as H.W.G Services and began operating in Canada in 2020. From 2022 to 2024 Begine Fusion was a Digital Advisor under the Canada Digital Adoption Programme (CDAP). He co-founded 6ixth Ideas Technologies from 2023 to 2025. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Affinity Mentorship Foundation.
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Evangel (Ev) Oputa is an entrepreneur, builder, systems thinker and speaker. He is the founder of Begine Fusion, a Calgary-based digital adoption and growth company, and co-founder of OnStack AI Labs, an applied AI lab in Calgary. He has more than 13 years of experience across IT, financial services, fintech, marketing and nonprofits, helping leaders build the business systems, workflows and AI capability their organizations need to grow.
Earlier, Oputa built a career in India as a model, dancer and actor and founded a talent agency there, which was the first business built from the ground up. He completed a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Mumbai, an MSc in Marketing at the University of Lagos, and a Brand Management certificate at the University of Toronto. He holds a Growth Marketing Minidegree from CXL and a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt from GoLeanSixSigma. He has taught marketing and entrepreneurship at Robertson College.
Begine Fusion began in Lagos in 2013 as H.W.G Services, a digital marketing company, and began operating in Canada in 2020. The company is headquartered in Calgary and is a Zoho Authorized Partner. From 2022 to 2024 Begine Fusion was a Digital Advisor under the Canada Digital Adoption Programme (CDAP). He co-founded 6ixth Ideas Technologies, a custom software and enterprise systems company, from 2023 to 2025.
His work is systems: process mapping, CRM and data architecture, automation, AI workflows and the governance around them, understanding how an organization's work runs before deciding which technology belongs in it. He hosts the One Thing About Life podcast and speaks on entrepreneurship, business systems, growth and artificial intelligence.
He serves on the Board of Directors of the Affinity Mentorship Foundation, and has held that seat since October 2024.
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- Preferred name
- Evangel (Ev) Oputa
- Full name
- Evangel Oputa
- Public descriptor
- Entrepreneur. Builder. Systems Thinker. Speaker.
- Title
- Founder, Begine Fusion
- Also
- Co-Founder, OnStack AI Labs
- Based in
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Begine Fusion
- Began in Lagos in 2013 as H.W.G Services. Began operating in Canada in 2020.
- Previous venture
- Co-founded 6ixth Ideas Technologies, 2023 to 2025
- Begine Fusion programme role
- Digital Advisor, Canada Digital Adoption Programme (CDAP), 2022 to 2024
- Board
- Board of Directors, Affinity Mentorship Foundation, since October 2024
- Contact
- sme@beginefusion.com
History
Background
- 2013 H.W.G Services. Begine Fusion began in Lagos as H.W.G Services, a digital marketing company.
- 2020 Began operating in Canada. Begine Fusion began operating in Canada in 2020.
- 2022 to 2024 Canada Digital Adoption Programme (CDAP). Begine Fusion served as a Digital Advisor under the Canada Digital Adoption Programme (CDAP).
- 2023 to 2025 6ixth Ideas Technologies. Co-founded 6ixth Ideas Technologies, a custom software and enterprise systems company.
- October 2024 Affinity Mentorship Foundation. Joined the Board of Directors.
- November 2025 FusionOS. Begine Fusion launched FusionOS, its AI operating system.
- Late 2025 OnStack AI Labs. Co-founded OnStack AI Labs. Officially launched in January 2026.
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The companies
Begine Fusion is a digital adoption and growth company working across Canada, the United States and Nigeria, headquartered in Calgary, and a Zoho Authorized Partner. We map how an organization's work runs, build the system of record and the automations that work needs, put governance around AI use, train the team, and where asked, run the function ourselves. Founded in 2013 in Lagos as H.W.G Services. Began operating in Canada in 2020.
OnStack AI Labs is Calgary's first innovative, structured, collaborative skills and applied AI lab, working across a global ecosystem. It is a partnership between QA Enterprises and Begine Fusion, co-founded by Evangel Oputa.
Current venture · Since 2013
Begine Fusion
Founder. Active business.
A Calgary-based digital adoption and growth company. Began in Lagos in 2013 as H.W.G Services and began operating in Canada in 2020. Begine Fusion is a Zoho Authorized Partner.
Current venture · Late 2025
OnStack AI Labs
Co-Founder. Active business.
An applied AI lab in Calgary. A partnership between QA Enterprises and Begine Fusion. Officially launched in January 2026.
Previous venture · 2023 to 2025
6ixth Ideas Technologies
Co-founder. Previous venture.
A custom software and enterprise systems company. Co-founded by Ev, 2023 to 2025.
Product · November 2025
AI Operating System (FusionOS)
Founder of Begine Fusion. Launched.
Begine Fusion launched FusionOS in November 2025. It is an AI operating system: the layer that governs, manages and coordinates how AI is deployed across business operations.
Open-source project
AI Boardroom
Founder of Begine Fusion. Open source.
An open-source AI boardroom that pressure-tests a decision. It draws 3 to 5 advisors from 109 business leaders across 18 domains and 4 continents, has them challenge the thinking from different angles, and returns one recommendation. Free to use and available on GitHub.
Program
Thinking With AI
Founder of Begine Fusion. Published program.
A guided practice program: 14 guided chapters with an embedded 30-day practice intensive, THINK Studio with 200 included AI runs, $97 once. Use AI. Keep your intelligence.
Podcast
One Thing About Life
Host. Podcast.
A podcast on marketing, branding, technology and business, for founders and operators.
Speaking
Subjects
Subjects Ev speaks on. Past events are listed on the profile.
Entrepreneurship and building businesses
For founders and operators. Perspectives on turning an idea into a business and executing the decision.
Systems and how organizations operate
How the work runs, what it costs, and the order to fix it in.
Technology and digital adoption
What it takes to get a business onto new systems and using them.
Growth and marketing
Reaching the right audience with data, content and automation behind it.
Artificial intelligence in organizations
Where AI earns its place in an operation, and where it does not, including the governance around its use.
Human capability and the future of work
Skills, judgment and work when AI takes on more of the task.
Published by Ev
Self-published work
Playbooks Ev has published.
Playbook · 10 August 2025
The AI Digital Visibility Playbook for Business Leaders
What it takes to be found and cited by AI search and answer engines, and what moves it.
Playbook · 28 November 2025
AI Governance: Lessons from the $1.6M Deloitte NL Report
A read of the Deloitte Netherlands governance findings and what they mean for a mid-market operator.
Playbook · 8 August 2026
The AI Systems Playbook: Deploy AI Across Your Operations
Turning scattered AI experiments into a system with data, rules and an owner.
Podcast
One Thing About Life, a podcast on marketing, branding, technology and business. Listen on Spotify.
Credentials
Credentials
- Degree Bachelor of Commerce University of Mumbai
- Degree MSc in Marketing University of Lagos
- Certificate Brand Management University of Toronto
- Certificate Growth Marketing Minidegree CXL
- Certification Level 3 Certified AI Agent Developer MindStudio, September 2025. Begine Fusion is a MindStudio partner
- Accreditation AWS Business Professional Amazon Web Services, January 2021
- Certificate Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt GoLeanSixSigma, August 2019
- Course certificate Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Thinking Machines LinkedIn, January 2019
- Course certificate Designing Business Models for the Digital Economy SAP, November 2017
Begine Fusion is a Zoho Authorized Partner and a MindStudio partner.
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