Bitsight Appoints John Clancy as CEO to Lead Cybersecurity Growth
Cyber risk intelligence company Bitsight named John Clancy as chief executive officer, effective immediately. Clancy succeeds Steve Harvey, who led the company for six years and oversaw its quadrupling in size.
Clancy brings 25 years of experience scaling software businesses. Most recently, he served as managing director and head of portfolio operations at PSG Equity, where he founded and led a value creation team across more than 100 portfolio companies. He also designed and drove PSG's AI strategy across its portfolio, helping companies launch new AI products and improve operations.
Board chair Bob Brennan said Clancy's background in scaling organizations and driving innovation positioned him to lead Bitsight through transformation as AI reshapes cybersecurity. Harvey will remain an advisor to the board.
Focus on Real-Time Risk and Resilience
Clancy said the future of cybersecurity depends on organizations' ability to understand risk in real time, put it in business context, and act with speed. He framed Bitsight's proprietary data and AI capabilities as critical to that shift.
"Bitsight is built on the critical, proprietary data that makes that possible, and with AI increasingly central to how organizations manage cyber risk, we are uniquely positioned to define what comes next," Clancy said.
Last month, Bitsight released Security Posture Management, a platform that combines threat intelligence, business context, control governance, and benchmarking to give organizations a clearer view of enterprise risk and a way to communicate cybersecurity effectiveness in business terms.
Clancy is based in Boston and holds a degree from Assumption University.
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