Joseph M. Saunders

Joe Saunders is founder and 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 Chairman of Ask Sage, a cloud-agnostic and large-language-model-agnostic platform transforming how government and business operate. He previously served as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, a director at Thomson Reuters Special Services, and a member of the management team at TARGUSinfo (sold to Neustar for $800M).

Joe is a frequently sought-after speaker and panelist, regularly asked to author articles on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and geopolitics. He is particularly interested in the implications of technological competition, economic coercion, and international security for the transformation of the international 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.