Tristan Gribbin
I am the CEO & founder of Flow - Meditation for modern life, an award-winning technology platform providing access to the proven benefits of meditation through cutting-edge tools in VR, Web, & Mobile.
Flow has been servicing companies like PwC, Vodafone, 66°North, and CCP Games with tools for boosting mental well-being and productivity at work. Flow is now moving into healthcare.
Flow is the winner of Gulleggið, "Best Icelandic Startup Award", November 2018.
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My family and I moved back to Reykjavik in 2012 to give our children the experience of growing up in Iceland where they were born, and where my husband Stefán Árni is from. Right after moving back, I started teaching Modern-Day Meditation in Reykjavik.
I love to teach meditation, give public talks and write about meditation. See my TEDx talk, "Meditation Rivals Medication." which has been transcribed into four languages.
Flow was a part of the Startup Reykjavik 2016 accelerator program and was also selected for the LaunchPad program by Vodafone Iceland. Flow VR earned a large 2 yr Technology Development Grant from the Icelandic Government, called Vöxtur from Tækniþróunarsjóður, for $500K, starting in June 2017, and a second grant, this time for marketing, from the same source in 2018. In 2018 Flow graduated from the Katapult Impact accelerator in Oslo.
I've organized and led meditation workshops and retreats internationally, like Renew & Grow with Peter Sterios (founder of Manduka) at Sólheimar.
Before moving back to Iceland, my family and I lived in Munich, Germany, where I taught Drama at the Munich International School (MIS). MIS has students from 90 countries and is one of the most highly regarded IB schools in the world.
Before that, I co-founded SUST Inc., an organic apparel company. SUST tied many of my passions and interests together: the environment, sustainability, creativity/design, and media. SUST was sold in stores like Fred Segal in Santa Monica and Eco Citizen in San Francisco. Before venturing into business, I worked for 10 years as a professional actress in theatre, television, and film, in Ireland, Iceland, and California, as a member of the Screen Actors' Guild.
A most notable role was the one-woman performance of The Saga of Guðriður with author and director Brynja Benediktsdottir. We toured throughout Europe and North America, giving over 100 performances.
I am married to Stefan Arni, an award-winning film director, www.arniandkinski.com. Stefán is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Flow.