Think about future technological developments like AI and space travel, or even well known entrepreneurial figures in tech like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos. While they might be bringing great advances to society, are they exactly ethical? Will pushes us to introspect on the ethics behind prominent historical developments and as an ethics expert, provides an ethical framework to guide ourselves into the future.
Will Griffin is the recipient of the IEEE Award for Distinguished Ethical Practices and his Top of Mind Ethics (TOME) framework also won the Communitas Award for Ethics. His past entrepreneurial work has also earned him the prestigious IAB/Brandweek Silver Medal for Innovation and the culturally significant NAACP Image Award.
Griffin is an entrepreneur and proven thought leader with a track record of bringing culture-shifting content and technology to new platforms. He is currently the Chief Ethics Officer at, a leading artificial intelligence firm, Hypergiant Industries. His previous ventures include launching the first original content slate on the Sony PlayStation Network with Endemol North America. He launched the first original VOD channel, Hip Hop OnDemand, on Comcast Cable systems. Griffin is a long-time board member of the nation’s oldest multicultural ad agency, Uniworld (WPP) and was an in-house strategist at News Corporation (Fox Entertainment Group).
He was an Associate at McKinsey & Co. in the Entertainment and Media practice (Los Angeles) where we worked on operations and post-merger integration for the world’s largest media companies including Time Warner and Disney. He began his professional career in the Asset-Backed Securities Group at Goldman Sachs in New York.
Griffin is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Dartmouth College and he completed the Entrepreneurship Curriculum at Harvard Business School.
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