Ted Souder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quoin.ai, the intelligence infrastructure company. Quoin builds the layer that turns fragmented information into verified, cited intelligence for high-stakes decisions, redefining how leaders access, evaluate, and act on information in a rapidly changing global economy.
Prior to co-founding Quoin.ai, Ted was one of Google's earliest employees and spent more than two decades helping scale the company from startup to global leader. He built and led high-performing teams in Chicago and Paris and advised many of the world's largest organizations across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Africa on search, mobile, video, cloud, and the early evolution of AI.
Today, Ted operates at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, and economic transformation. He serves on the boards of 1871, one of the world's leading tech innovation communities, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a premier geopolitical think tank. He is a member of the NUS Medicine International Council, an invitation-only body of global leaders convened by Asia's leading medical school, and a partner at HTAT Safaris, operating in Southern and Eastern Africa.
A sought-after speaker and advisor on five continents, Ted works with CEOs, boards, and government leaders to build AI-first strategies and future-ready organizations. His THRIVE framework has become a roadmap for leading through The Great Compression and turning disruption into competitive advantage.
