Lisa Thee is a Top 50 Global Thought Leader for AI, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Safety, with demonstrated experience in delivering revenue and solving complex business technology, governance, privacy, and risk challenges at scale. Mrs. Thee is a consultant to some of the world's most innovative healthcare and global technology companies, including Microsoft and UCSF's Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation, helping to accelerate FDA approval for AI use in clinical settings. She was the CEO and cofounder of Minor Guard, an artificial intelligence software company focused on making people safer online and in real life. She is a keynote speaker, including her TEDx talk Bringing Light to Dark Places Online: Disrupting Human Trafficking Using AI. She hosts the award-winning Navigating Forward podcast. She was named to the 2022 Top Health and Safety, Privacy, and AI Thought Leaders and Influencers and Women in Business you should follow by Thinkers360. She was also named to the 2022 Top 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics global list and to the Top 10 Impactful Women in Cybersecurity from Woman Achiever magazine. Mrs. Thee currently serves as an advisory board member for Engineered Medical Solutions and Spectrum Labs. She is also a board of directors member for Humaxa, an HR-focused AI software company, and for 3Strands Global Foundation, an organization focused on human trafficking prevention and reintegration. As CEO and chairman of the board for Minor Guard, she secured seed funding, led product development, and set the sales strategy. She brings board value for ESG, specifically around AI ethics and diversity and inclusion. Mrs. Thee has nineteen years of digital director experience, most recently overseeing $6 billion in business for Intel's data center and storage markets. Mrs. Thee led engagements for big data solutions to disrupt child exploitation in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Google, and Microsoft, including ingestion, transition to hybrid cloud, and building machine learning models to accelerate the coordinated national response to child abuse reports from thirty days to twenty-four hours. As the founder of the project, she secured $4 million in funding for hardware and engineering resources for 2017. Mrs. Thee holds a bachelor of science in industrial and operations management engineering, from the University of Michigan. She is also a certified project management professional who has been licensed by the Project Management Institute since 2005.
