Saul Griffith

Inventor, engineer, author and visionary

Saul Griffith is an engineer and entrepreneur specialising in clean and renewable energy technologies. Saul has founded a dozen technology companies across 20 years in Silicon Valley. Saul is the author of 3 books including `Electrify', and `The Big Switch'. Saul has recently turned his attention from Otherlab, his independent Research and Development lab, to policy work and writing, including founding Rewiring America and Rewiring Australia, non-partisan organizations dedicated to electrification and decarbonization and the associated policy and regulatory implications of meeting our climate goals.

Saul received his Ph.D. at MIT in the junction between materials science and information theory. Prior to MIT, he studied in Sydney, Australia and at UC Berkeley in metallurgical engineering. Since graduating in 2004, he has founded and co-founded numerous technology companies based in the Bay Area. These include Treau (now Gradient), Sunfolding, Roam Robotics, Fablight, Wattzon, Canvas Construction, Makani Power (acquired by Google), Instructables.com (acquired by Autodesk), Squid Labs, Howtoons, Optiopia, and Potenco.

Saul has received numerous awards and honours, including National Inventors Hall of Fame National Collegiate Inventors Awards 2001, Time Magazine Top Inventions of 2005, MacArthur Fellows Recipient 2007, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2011, Global Australian Advance Award Winner for Advanced Manufacturing 2012, The Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize 2019 and multiple more.