Gryphon Agency is a consultancy working at the intersection of communications, marketing, and product design. With a 20-year focus on emerging tech, we integrate deep experience in Silicon Valley with a global outlook and an openness to new ideas.
In addition to our consulting work with tech companies, NGOs, universities, and government agencies, we partner with design houses to launch new products and spaces. Our design background gives us a unique vantage point for understanding technology issues.
We believe technology’s first responsibility is to enhance human wellbeing, knowledge, and civilization. Through our work with some of the world's most forward-thinking product designers, we know how to use design as a critical practice to drive equity, inclusion, and sustainability.
We value independent thinking and help our clients understand communications, marketing, and design challenges from multiple perspectives.
Gryphon combines boutique service with Fortune 100 experience and a global outlook. Based in San Francisco and Berlin, we are a multi-disciplinary team of marketing, PR, and public affairs strategists, writers and editors, illustrators, and designers. Our consultants are senior practitioners with a unique range of industry expertise that spans technology, design and architecture, energy and transportation, consumer products, healthcare, retail and luxury, hospitality, and real estate.
With 20 years of experience in emerging tech as well as in the product design field, James brings a hybrid expertise in communications, marketing, and product design to help launch and scale breakthrough companies. While he is energized by science and technology, he is equally focused on the fundamentals of the "product-marketing nexus" -- understanding human behavior, leveraging insights to develop world-class UX, and creating a modern marcom platform to claim a differentiated position in the market.
Sean Wolcott, the acclaimed designer and founder of Rationale, has previously designed for some of the biggest companies and products in the world, and his team of top talent brings a broad level of insight to each project.
Paul is a communications strategist who has consulted for a diverse portfolio of clients in fields like renewable energy, electric vehicles, housing, healthcare, higher education, and design. In addition to Gryphon, Paul served as a communications manager for social impact agency Matter Unlimited, a marketing intern at global design firm argo, and a graphic design intern with technology firm TouchMate Inc. Paul graduated with a B.S. in advertising from the Moody College of Communications at the University of Texas at Austin.
