Julie Cordua

Thorn
Chief Executive Officer

Julie Cordua is the chief executive officer of Thorn, a nonprofit she helped create in 2012 to revolutionize how children are protected from sexual abuse in the digital age. Thorn has developed technology deployed in over 50 countries, helping accelerate the identification of child victims by reducing triage time by 32%, flagging over 6 million files of child sexual abuse material for removal, and sparking more than 120,000 conversations with youth about internet safety. In the past year, Cordua led the launch of the Safety by Design Principles for Generative AI in partnership with All Tech Is Human and tech giants like Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta and Amazon – setting a new industry benchmark for child safety in AI development. Thorn also released groundbreaking research exposing new threats such as AI-generated deepfake nudes of minors and trends in financial sextortion. Before Thorn, Cordua served as VP of marketing at (RED), generating $160 million plus to fight AIDS in Africa and worked nearly a decade in wireless technology.