diff --git a/src/main/java/com/netflix/simianarmy/aws/conformity/crawler/AWSClusterCrawler.java b/src/main/java/com/netflix/simianarmy/aws/conformity/crawler/AWSClusterCrawler.java
index ebec5940..2a7f4e60 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/netflix/simianarmy/aws/conformity/crawler/AWSClusterCrawler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/netflix/simianarmy/aws/conformity/crawler/AWSClusterCrawler.java
@@ -18,11 +18,13 @@
 package com.netflix.simianarmy.aws.conformity.crawler;
 
 import com.amazonaws.services.autoscaling.model.AutoScalingGroup;
+import com.amazonaws.services.autoscaling.model.TagDescription;
 import com.amazonaws.services.autoscaling.model.Instance;
 import com.amazonaws.services.autoscaling.model.SuspendedProcess;
 import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
 import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+import com.netflix.simianarmy.basic.BasicSimianArmyContext;
 import com.netflix.simianarmy.MonkeyConfiguration;
 import com.netflix.simianarmy.client.aws.AWSClient;
 import com.netflix.simianarmy.conformity.Cluster;
@@ -97,7 +99,19 @@ public List<Cluster> clusters(String... clusterNames) {
                         conformityAsg.setSuspended(true);
                     }
                 }
+
                 Cluster cluster = new Cluster(asg.getAutoScalingGroupName(), region, conformityAsg);
+                
+                List<TagDescription> tagDescriptions = asg.getTags();
+                for (TagDescription tagDescription : tagDescriptions) {
+                    if ( BasicSimianArmyContext.GLOBAL_OWNER_TAGKEY.equalsIgnoreCase(tagDescription.getKey()) ) {
+                        String value = tagDescription.getValue();
+                        if (value != null) {
+                            cluster.setOwnerEmail(value);
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
                 updateCluster(cluster);
                 list.add(cluster);
             }
@@ -143,11 +157,18 @@ public String getOwnerEmailForCluster(Cluster cluster) {
         String prop = String.format("%s.%s.ownerEmail", NS, cluster.getName());
         String ownerEmail = cfg.getStr(prop);
         if (ownerEmail == null) {
-            LOGGER.info(String.format("No owner email is found for cluster %s in configuration"
-                    + "please set property %s for it.", cluster.getName(), prop));
+            ownerEmail = cluster.getOwnerEmail();
+            if (ownerEmail == null) {
+                LOGGER.info(String.format("No owner email is found for cluster %s in configuration "
+                    + "%s or tag %s.", cluster.getName(), prop, BasicSimianArmyContext.GLOBAL_OWNER_TAGKEY));
+            } else {
+                LOGGER.info(String.format("Found owner email %s for cluster %s in tag %s.",
+                        ownerEmail, cluster.getName(), BasicSimianArmyContext.GLOBAL_OWNER_TAGKEY));
+                return ownerEmail;
+            }
         } else {
-            LOGGER.info(String.format("Found owner email %s for cluster %s in configuration.",
-                    ownerEmail, cluster.getName()));
+            LOGGER.info(String.format("Found owner email %s for cluster %s in configuration %s.",
+                    ownerEmail, cluster.getName(), prop));
         }
         return ownerEmail;
     }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/netflix/simianarmy/aws/conformity/TestASGOwnerEmailTag.java b/src/test/java/com/netflix/simianarmy/aws/conformity/TestASGOwnerEmailTag.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1f85d552
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/netflix/simianarmy/aws/conformity/TestASGOwnerEmailTag.java
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+// CHECKSTYLE IGNORE Javadoc
+package com.netflix.simianarmy.aws.conformity;
+
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
+
+import com.amazonaws.services.autoscaling.model.AutoScalingGroup;
+import com.amazonaws.services.autoscaling.model.SuspendedProcess;
+import com.amazonaws.services.autoscaling.model.TagDescription;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
+
+import com.netflix.simianarmy.aws.conformity.crawler.AWSClusterCrawler;
+import com.netflix.simianarmy.basic.BasicConfiguration;
+import com.netflix.simianarmy.basic.conformity.BasicConformityMonkeyContext;
+import com.netflix.simianarmy.conformity.Cluster;
+import com.netflix.simianarmy.client.aws.AWSClient;
+
+import junit.framework.Assert;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+public class TestASGOwnerEmailTag {
+    
+    private static final String ASG1 = "asg1";
+    private static final String ASG2 = "asg2";
+    private static final String OWNER_TAG_KEY = "owner";
+    private static final String OWNER_TAG_VALUE = "tyler@paperstreet.com";
+    private static final String REGION = "eu-west-1";
+
+    @Test
+    public void testForOwnerTag() {
+        Properties properties = new Properties();
+        BasicConformityMonkeyContext ctx = new BasicConformityMonkeyContext();
+
+        List<AutoScalingGroup> asgList = createASGList();
+        String[] asgNames = {ASG1, ASG2};
+
+        AWSClient awsMock = createMockAWSClient(asgList, asgNames);
+        Map<String, AWSClient> regionToAwsClient = Maps.newHashMap();
+        regionToAwsClient.put("us-east-1", awsMock);
+        AWSClusterCrawler clusterCrawler = new AWSClusterCrawler(regionToAwsClient, new BasicConfiguration(properties));
+
+        List<Cluster> clusters = clusterCrawler.clusters(asgNames);
+        
+        Assert.assertTrue(OWNER_TAG_VALUE.equalsIgnoreCase(clusters.get(0).getOwnerEmail()));
+        Assert.assertNull(clusters.get(1).getOwnerEmail());
+    }
+
+    private List<AutoScalingGroup> createASGList() {
+        List<AutoScalingGroup> asgList = new LinkedList<AutoScalingGroup>();
+        asgList.add(makeASG(ASG1, OWNER_TAG_VALUE));
+        asgList.add(makeASG(ASG2, null));
+        return asgList;
+    }
+
+    private AutoScalingGroup makeASG(String asgName, String ownerEmail) {
+        TagDescription tag = new TagDescription().withKey(OWNER_TAG_KEY).withValue(ownerEmail);
+        AutoScalingGroup asg = new AutoScalingGroup()
+            .withAutoScalingGroupName(asgName)
+            .withTags(tag);
+        return asg;
+    }
+    
+    private AWSClient createMockAWSClient(List<AutoScalingGroup> asgList, String... asgNames) {
+        AWSClient awsMock = mock(AWSClient.class);
+        when(awsMock.describeAutoScalingGroups(asgNames)).thenReturn(asgList);
+        return awsMock;
+    }
+}
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