Veracode general counsel Dawn Rogers.

Global cybersecurity company Veracode has tapped veteran software industry in-house lawyer Dawn Rogers to serve as general counsel.

Rogers will oversee the Burlington, Massachusetts-based firm's legal strategy and support its national and global expansion efforts while providing oversight on corporate governance, compliance and intellectual property management.

She joined Veracode in April but the company announced her hiring Tuesday. She said in a news release that “Veracode has pioneered and transformed the application security industry into what it is today, and the company continues leading the charge with helping businesses understand how to secure their software and make secure coding part of their DevOps and digital transformation initiatives.”

Rogers added she “could not be more excited to join Veracode at a time when companies around the world effect change in health care, education, science, finance and other industries through their software.”

She is Veracode's first general counsel since it became an independent company again Jan. 1 with the backing of private equity firm Thoma Bravo, which acquired Veracode from Broadcom Inc. in a $950 million deal.

Veracode boasts of having helped companies fix more than 36 million security flaws. Its former GC, Dean Breda, left the company in 2017 and now serves as the GC of the San Francisco-based HackerOne cybersecurity firm.

In announcing Rogers' hiring, Veracode CEO Sam King said “her decades of experience in the software industry and her legal expertise, and her expertise on privacy, will help enable us to continue to innovate and service our customers.”

Rogers has worked in the tech sector since 1998, when she left an advertising agency and became director of marketing and communications for Moldflow, which at the time was a startup providing simulation software to the plastics industry

While at Moldflow, Rogers attended an evening J.D. program at Suffolk University Law School. She graduated in 2005 and was appointed corporate attorney and director of investor relations at Moldflow. She wrote on her LinkedIn profile that she “helped guide the company from its start-up phase and IPO through its acquisition in 2008.”

She later joined font software and tech company Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. in 2009 as corporate counsel.

During the next decade, she moved her way up through Monotype's legal department ranks until she reached the position of vice president and assistant general counsel of the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

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