Act 1 Who
Ben Priddy
“I love the creative ways technology shows up in culture, and I've built my career around making them: writing code, leading teams, directing technology and working across disciplines to create inspiring work with Google, Samsung and The Grammys, awarded at Cannes, the Webbys, the One Show and more.”
Headline figures
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reached
Impactful experiences delivered for brands across every platform.
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guided
Team members across 6 global offices, guided into everyday AI work
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hours taught
AI focused education material crafted presented and supported.
- 21awardsIndustry recognition, including Cannes, the Webbys and the One Show.
- 12yearsIn technology leadership
Profile
Now heading AI Technology globally for Anomaly, I helped shape the company's AI vision and led the adoption that took internal use from novelty to a core facet of the business, through R&D, rapid realization and building of internal tools now in active use, a global internal education series, and direct project work with our brand partners.
Act 2 Now
Currently solving
“I’m focused on the first and last mile of enterprise AI: the data and the user.”
The models are remarkable, but business data grows fast and in every direction until it’s too noisy to reason about, and real users mostly don’t speak in evals.
“Thoughtfully building data pipelines supports AI agents and unlocks the most powerful real-world use cases.”
Act 3 Career
18 years of experimenting, learning, building and leading.
A lot has happened since learning to code in 2008. Let's take a walk down memory lane.
In tech Sep 2026 Apple unveils its first foldable, the iPhone Duo
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Jun 2023 – Present
Anomaly
Global Head of AI Technology Mar 2026 to Present
Technical Director, Emerging Technologies Jun 2023 to Mar 2026
3.4 years · 41 months
- Lead AI technology globally, partnering with the Chief AI Officer to set AI strategy and vision, and owning the infrastructure, standards, and working practice.
- Build the practice from the ground up alongside the people in it, on the premise that coding is becoming a facet of every role the way building a deck already is.
- Designed and led applied AI education across the network: multiple AI Weeks for global offices as a rollout strategy, and individual workshops covering generative coding, AI video, and automated research.
- Evaluate the AI tooling landscape and build the connective infrastructure that makes it usable under real production deadlines and client approvals.
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Apr 2022 – Apr 2023
Active Theory
Technical Director Apr 2022 to Apr 2023
1.1 years · 13 months
- Led a team of developers, raising engineering practice and standards across the studio's project work.
- Contributed to the evolution of the internal libraries and tooling that the company has come to be known for.
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Jan 2019 – Apr 2022
Stink Studios
Technical Director 2019 to Apr 2022
3.3 years · 40 months
- Built the vision for the studio's technology offering, shaping what the company sold and how it positioned technical capability to clients.
- Led technology on award-winning project work for global brands, from technical concept through delivery.
- Partnered with creative and new business on scoping and feasibility, translating ambitious concepts into buildable plans before they were committed.
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Sep 2014 – Jun 2019
Tool of North America
Creative Director of Technology Sep 2014 to Jun 2019
4.8 years · 58 months
- Production-side creative director on interactive campaigns for international brands including New Balance, The Grammys, Google, and Airbnb.
- Voraciously researched and prototyped at the cutting edge of creative technology, discovering use cases and behaviors that became central components of future campaigns.
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2008 – Aug 2014
The early years
6.7 years · 80 months
Self teaching. Learning from friends. Learning from communities
- AI Leadership2023–2026 · 3.4 yrsAnomaly
- Tech Direction2019–2023 · 4.3 yrsStink Studios, Active Theory
- Creative Technology2014–2018 · 4.3 yrsTool of North America
- Teeth Cutting2008–2014 · 6.7 yrs
10 Clients & brands
- Samsung
- The Grammys
- New Balance
- Airbnb
- Spotify
- Nike
- NYTimes
- U.S Army
- Chevrolet
Awarded at
- Cannes
- Webbys
- One Show
Agency partners on the work
- Adam & Eve
- VML
- TBWA/CHIAT/DAY
- Universal McCann
- Commonwealth
Act 4 Capabilities
What I store locally
- What I can do 3
- Agentic Graph engineering
- Graph Architecture
- Data Architecture
- What I can review 7
- Python
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- React frameworks
- WebGL / shaders
- Modern database architectures
- Modern cloud infrastructure