Joseph M. 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.
“The RunSafe overarching philosophy is simple. We like to apply automated tools that are easy to implement, that offer an asymmetric advantage to developers in the systems that we protect.”
Joe is also 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 member of 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, economics coercion, and international security on the transformation of the international world order. He is the founder of International Resilience Institute, a 501(c) 3 non-profit which is building the Global Resilience Index to quantify power and coercion among nation states.
Education
- University of Michigan, BS-Mathematics
- Northwestern University, MS-Predictive Analytics
- George Mason University, MBA-Finance (Voted Outstanding MBA by Faculty)
- George Mason University, MA-International Security
