Tech Edge hosted a fireside chat on July 27 at Nasdaq MarketSite with David Gerry, Chief Executive Officer of Bugcrowd. The in-person interview was joined by Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone and they discussed why AI is transforming cybersecurity by empowering both attackers and defenders, how the company combines AI with its global community of ethical hackers to find security flaws across AI systems, the company’s AI platform, Savant, and its key innovations to help security teams operate at machine speed.
About David Gerry
Dave Gerry is Chief Executive Officer of Bugcrowd and a cybersecurity leader with nearly 15 years of experience spanning offensive security, autonomous testing, and crowdsourced security. Before Bugcrowd, he served as CRO and COO at WhiteHat Security, guiding the company through acquisitions by NTT and Synopsys, and has held senior leadership roles at Veracode, Sumo Logic, and The Herjavec Group. He was named the 2025 New Hampshire Tech Alliance Entrepreneur of the Year.
Dave serves on the Industry Advisory Board for Merrimack College’s School of Computational Sciences and Engineering, the Girard School of Business Board of Advisors, the New Hampshire Tech Alliance AI Task Force, and the Cybersecurity Advisory Board at Cambridge University. He holds an MBA from Suffolk University.
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About Bugcrowd
Bugcrowd is the leading provider of crowdsourced cybersecurity solutions purpose-built to secure the digitally connected world. Today’s enterprise demands an offensive approach to cybersecurity—and Bugcrowd offers the only solution that orchestrates data, technology, and human intelligence to expose blind spots.
The Bugcrowd Security Knowledge Platform™ enables businesses to do everything proactively possible to protect their organization, reputation and customers with products like Bug Bounty, Penetration Testing-as-a-Service, and more. Trusted by organizations across the globe, Bugcrowd uncovers and remediates vulnerabilities before they interrupt business by leveraging expert ingenuity and the knowledge of world-class security researchers.
Based in San Francisco, Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Triangle Peak Partners.
Learn more at www.bugcrowd.com.
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