Corey Arnez Griffin

Griffin is the president and chief executive officer of Global Government and Industry Partners, LLC (2GIP), a professional services firm specializing in providing government affairs, business advisory, management consulting, and international development services. Founded in 2010, Griffin has worked and supported both Fortune 100 firms and small organizations with specific business interests in the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland, including Cisco Systems, Pepco, Anthem Health Insurance, Johns Hopkins University, Douglas Development, Skip Scooters, DoorDash, Chubb Insurance, and others. Griffin has successfully delivered services across multiple sectors, including real estate development, energy, gaming, education, utilities, hospitality, transportation/micro-mobility, health, and the nonprofit sector. His approach focuses  on expertise in stakeholder engagement, business development, public-private partnerships, corporate social responsibility, and a strong working knowledge of local public policy. Griffin has engaged on some of the most important legislative issues in the District of Columbia and has done so with a strong record of success, including tax bonds, land use, PILOTs, abatements, clean energy, sports betting, short term rentals, and affordable housing bills, amongst others. He’s currently engaged to support the most transformative transportation project on the east coast, the SC- Maglev. 

Prior to his time as an entrepreneur, Griffin served in the position of Associate Director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships at the Peace Corps as a Senior Foreign Service Officer appointed by President Barack Obama. In this capacity, Griffin was responsible for developing and executing the agency’s strategy to engage partners to support the thousands of Peace Corps Volunteers in their efforts to bring grassroots development solutions to more than 60 countries around the world. With partnerships with over 200 non-governmental organizations, universities, private sector firms, and other federal agencies, Griffin led a team of practitioners responsible for the development and management of Peace Corps’ partnerships with USAID, Rotary International, National Peace Corps Association, KOICA, Coca Cola, Google, Arizona State University, amongst many others. He also led the agency’s strategy for external affairs, gifts and grants management, intergovernmental affairs, national service, faith-based initiatives, and university programming. 

Before joining the Peace Corps, Griffin served as chief of staff to the chair pro tempore for the Council in the District of Columbia. In this role, he served as the Councilmember’s chief political advisor and strategist on issues that included workforce, economic development, housing, public policy and municipal administration. Griffin also served the District of Columbia as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in the Brookland community, where he was instrumental in helping to bring much needed development to the northeast corridor of the city. His combined experience in government and business has afforded him the advantage of knowing intimately how government, business and community work together to solve problems. 

Before his tenure in the public sector, Griffin spent nearly two decades in the private sector. He was Vice President for Business Development at Mainstream Government Services and spent more than 14 years at Microsoft Corporation working in various roles and leadership positions, including consulting, operations, and sales. As Director of International Development, Griffin 

was responsible for Microsoft’s strategy for aid, trade and finance agencies, including United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR), Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), etc. In this Corey Arnez Griffin Biography role, Griffin developed innovative public, private partnership models to drive Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) solutions to developing countries. Griffin is noted for brokering a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Microsoft, USAID, PEPFAR and the MCC in 2007 that facilitated broader, cross-agency ICT partnerships around the world. 

Griffin has served on the boards for many local, national, and international organizations, including the United States Global Leadership Campaign, Samaricorp, Society for International Development (SID), Greater Washington Urban League, Tech World Public Charter School, Recreation Wish List Committee, The Foundation Schools and ATHGO. He has served as a corporate representative to the Business Council for International Understanding and in 2008, Griffin was appointed by USAID Administrator, Henrietta H. Fore, to serve on the Advisory Committee on Foreign Voluntary Aid and is Director Emeritus at the National Peace Corps Association. Griffin currently serves on the boards of the Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF), Best Kids, So Others Might Eat (SOME), University of Richmond Customer Experience Advisory Council, and is the current chair of the Greater Washington Black Chamber of Commerce. Griffin is a proud native Washingtonian and was honored by the Washington Business Journal as one of the region’s top minority business leaders of the year for 2008. The Devex Group also named him one of the top 40 development professionals under 40 in 2010. He is the proud recipient of many awards, including the Urban League’s Community Service Award and the Tom Skinner Leadership Award. 

Griffin attended Morgan State University and has completed executive execution course work at The George Washington University, Harvard University, Howard University, UCLA, and Cornell University, The University of South Florida. Griffin is a Leadership Greater Washington graduate of the class of 2007, a proud network of more than 1000 of the region's top leaders from every sector. He is also a fellow with the American Council for Technology – Industry Advisory Council, an esteemed group of government and industry professionals focused on improving government through technology. As a passionate advocate of innovation and technology, Griffin served as co-chair for Mayor Vincent Gray’s transition team for business innovation in 2010 and later co-founded DC Innovates, a non-profit structured to support technology inclusion in partnership with the District of Columbia. Mayor Gray also appointed Griffin to serve on the Saint Elizabeth East Advisory Board, a 100 plus acre parcel slated for redevelopment to bring revitalization to one of the city's most underserved communities. More recently, Griffin was appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser to serve on District of Columbia’s Innovation and Technology Inclusion Council and The Reopen DC task force focused on business impact mitigation for COVID-19 and safe reopening of the city’s small business and retail concern. In 2020, Griffin was appointed to serve on the corporate board of Behavioral Insights Team North America, a professional services consultancy focused on the use of data to improve lives and communities.