Stephen Saunders

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About Stephen Saunders

Saunders is a British-born communications analyst, investor, and digital media entrepreneur. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Laser Light Communications, which is building the world's first all-optical carrier network in space. In 2018 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to the telecommunications industry and business. Saunders began his career as a technology journalist with McGraw-Hill in the 1980’s. In he launched Light Reading, an online media network covering telecommunications news, telecommunications research, and security news. Light Reading was acquired by UBM in 2005 for $33 million. Saunders then bought Light Reading back from UBM in January 2014, reselling it to Informa PLC two years later, having doubled both its revenues and audience. In the last 25 years, Saunders has won more than 100 awards for journalism, technology analysis, and digital media publishing, including: 2010 - Min's Digital Media Marketer of the Year 2009 - No. 2 position on Folio magazine's Folio 40 ranking of magazine industry influencers and innovators 2008 – Inductee, Min's Digital Media Hall of Fame Saunders is the author of three books: The Data Communications Gigabit Ethernet Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1998), The McGraw-Hill High-Speed LANs Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1995) and The True Story of King Arthur (48hourbooks, 2009). Steve splits his time between the US (Brooklyn) and the UK (London, and Sussex). He has three sons: Harrison, Spenser, and Parker. saunders@laserlightcomms.com