Clean Disruption: 10 Years Later (2025)
By the team at RethinkX
Tony Seba
Tony Seba is a world-renowned thought leader, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, educator, and the author of the Amazon #1 best-selling book Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030.
Tony’s work focuses on the convergence of technologies, business models and product innovations that disrupt the world’s major industries. He was an early employee of disruptive companies including Cisco Systems and RSA Data Security. As a speaker he has delivered keynotes for major companies and at global events including Google, J.P. Morgan, CLSA Investors Forum, Intersolar, Davos, COP21 World Climate Summit and the Global Leaders Forum.
Tony has taught thousands of entrepreneurs and corporate leaders at Stanford University Continuing Studies. Tony earned a Stanford MBA and a computer science and engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Adam Dorr
Adam Dorr directs our research program and leads our research team. He is an environmental social scientist and technology theorist whose recent RethinkX publications have focused on the disruption of the global energy sector by new energy generation and storage technologies, as well as the implications of the energy, transportation and food disruptions for climate change.
Adam regularly presents RethinkX's work on stage, radio, podcasts, and television and has more than a decade of teaching, lecturing, and public speaking experience.
He completed his MS at the University of Michigan's School for the Environment and Sustainability and his PhD at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Bradd Libby
Bradd Libby is responsible for our complex systems analysis and modelling. Prior to RethinkX, he spent several years designing and building scientific equipment for use in the Arctic and studying the effects of climate change on industry, agriculture, and cities.
He has been professionally involved in using computer simulation, including system dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation, to understand complex systems for more than two decades. Bradd has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Taylor Hinds
Taylor Hinds leads a range of RethinkX research projects, with a special focus on disruption within the agriculture sector.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of British Columbia, where she completed several work placements in government, non-profit organizations and global research groups covering food security and agriculture, land use and environmental remediation, and environmental policy.
Owen Westfold
Owen Westfold brings expertise in mathematical modelling to RethinkX. His main research interests are in complex systems theory and the disruption of fossil fuels by solar, wind and batteries (SWB).
Owen works on the development of quantitative models of electricity systems, aimed at exploring the shape of a future organised around SWB technology. Owen holds a PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Melbourne.
