Tren Griffin

Tren Griffin is a consultant and business owner who retired from Microsoft on December 31, 2025. He is on the board of several private companies. Before joining Microsoft, Tren was a partner at Eagle River, a private equity firm controlled by Craig McCaw with investments in the telecommunication and software industries including McCaw Cellular, Nextel, Nextel Partners, XO Communications, and many start-up firms. He was the co-founder of broadband  satellite company Teledesic in 1993. His early career included five years working and living as a business consultant in Korea and Australia.  

He is the author of six books, including: The Complete Charlie Munger (Columbia University Press, September 15, 2015), The Global Negotiator Building Strong Business Relationships Anywhere in the World (Harper Collins, 1990); Korea, The Tiger Economy (Euromoney, 1988); Taiwan’s Economy (Euromoney, 1989)