Joe Saunders

Joe Saunders is Founder & CEO of RunSafe Security. He leads a team of former national security cyber experts on a mission to make critical infrastructure safe. Working with companies such as Lockheed Martin, GE Vernova, and Vertiv, as well as the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, and dozens of other organizations, RunSafe Security identifies risk in your software supply chain, prevents exploitation of embedded systems, and monitors software for indicators of compromise and bugs. Joe is also the former Chairman of Ask Sage, a cloud-agnostic and large-language-model-agnostic platform that is transforming how government and business operate. He previously served as a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, a director at Thomson Reuters Special Services, and a member of the management team of TARGUSinfo (sold Neustar for $800M). Joe is a frequently sought-after speaker and panelist and is regularly asked to author articles on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and geopolitics. He is particularly interested in the implications of technology competition, economic coercion, and international security on the transformation of the international world order. He is the founder of the International Resilience Institute, a 501(c) 3 non-profit that is building the Global Resilience Index to quantify power and coercion among nation states.