Scott Griffin

Scott Griffin (1938 –) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's most generous poetry awards in 2000.

Griffin is the chairman, director and majority shareholder of two Canadian manufacturing companies. General Kinetics Engineering Corporation (Brampton, Ontario, Canada) designs and manufactures components for military and other tracked vehicles and high speed rail. [Per General Kinetics web site http://www.kinetics.ca/products/index.htm] Advance Precision Ltd. (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) designs and manufactures parts for the automotive industry. [Per Advance Precision web site http://www.adv-precision.com/about/index.html] Both companies have design and manufacturing facilities in the Greater Toronto Area.

Griffin is also chairman, director and majority shareholder since 2002 of publisher House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books. He is also Chancellor of Bishop's University, chairman of the Governors of Sedbergh School in Canada and a director of DGC Entertainment Ventures Corp.

Griffin is on several NGO boards, as a director of Canadian Executive Services Overseas (CESO), a volunteer advisor to CESO and a director of African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Canada. In 2006, Griffin published a memoir entitled "My Heart is Africa" that recounted his two-year aviation adventure starting in 1996, working for the Flying Doctors Service in Africa. All royalties from the sale of the book are donated to the AMREF Flying Doctors Service. The book was named to the "Globe and Mail" top 100 for 2006.

Griffin is married to noted jewellery designer Krystyne Griffin and has four children and eight grandchildren.

ee also

*List of Canadian university leaders

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External links

* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/ Griffin Poetry Prize Web site]
* [http://www.thomas-allen.com/onix_books.php?bid=35903 Thomas Allen Publishers page on "My Heart is Africa"]
* [http://www.anansi.ca/titles.cfm?pub_id=1115 House of Anansi Press page on "My Heart is Africa"]
* [http://bookshorts.com/watch_griffin.htm BookShort videos on "My Heart is Africa"]
* [http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/article.jsp?content=52692 Poetry in Motion - A lucrative prize may train the public eye on the most ignored of arts, by John Bemrose (Macleans magazine, June, 2001)]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/blog/2007/05/why_poetry.php Scott Griffin discusses poetry, online from CBC Words at Large blog]
* [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071020.wxanansi20gta/BNStory/Entertainment/home 'The big guys keep being surprised by us' (article about House of Anansi Press in The Globe and Mail, October, 2007)]
* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/press_releases.php?t=31 Al Purdy - A Permanent Tribute - Statue of Canada’s Favourite Poet Unveiled in Queen’s Park]

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