Brett Griffin

Vice President, Marketing & Strategy

Brett has 15 years of experience in marketing, public relations, crisis communications, and event management, spanning B2B and B2C clients. As Vice President of marketing and strategy, he develops and executes the agency's new business and marketing functions while providing clients with top-notch account management. With a meticulous and strategic mindset, Brett embraces a data-driven approach to inform decision-making at every stage. He has a knack for identifying patterns and uncovering hidden opportunities, allowing them to optimize campaign efforts, refine target audiences, and tailor messaging for maximum impact.

His passion for and innate ability to digest the technical aspects of the space industry and apply his knowledge to strategic and tactical communications recommendations has brought immense value to the agency. Clients range from experienced aerospace companies to commercial start-ups, non-profit STEM, workforce development organizations, and space entertainment, such as Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corp., Quantum Space, Fisher Space Pen, Association of Space Explorers XXXII Planetary Congress, and Apollo 11: The Immersive Show. He has also led clients in energy and manufacturing, such as CVR Energy and Bodycote Aerospace, Defence & Energy (ADE).

Brett led the Griffin team, which served as the lead agency for Blue Origin's First Human Flight on July 20, 2021. The work included comprehensive communications across several months to promote the launch through integrated human-centric storytelling.

He also facilitates clients' preparation for and management during crises by coordinating executive media and message training, developing crisis communications plans, and tabletop and full drills for aerospace, energy, manufacturing, and hospitality clients. He's jumped in as a crisis team member during the explosions at the Arkema liquid organic peroxide plant in Crosby, Tex. due to flooding from Hurricane Harvey in 2017, a fire with fatalities at CVR Energy's Coffeyville, KS refinery in 2014, and a boiler explosion with fatalities at CVR Energy's Wynnewood, OK refinery in 2012.

Brett serves on the Aerospace Advisory Committee of the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership and works from Griffin's Houston, TX, headquarters office.