In 2026, Gerald Busardo was named CEO and President of Exigent as founder Daniel Haurey Jr. retired from daily operations. Prior, he served as Senior Vice President for many years, shouldering the responsibility for managing the company's finances while also guiding Exigent's day-to-day operations, human resources and sales. In his role, Gerald inspires forward-looking strategic planning balanced with fiscal responsibility to create a stable yet innovative approach to growth.
During his time with Exigent, Gerald has worked closely with the leadership team to foster a success-oriented, accountable environment within Exigent, maintaining an exceptional and energetic level of corporate motivation, inspiration, and engagement. He has worked tirelessly to standardize and continuously improve all elements of operational infrastructure, including systems, processes, and personnel structure, all with a keen focus on scalability and incomparable customer experience.
During his 20 years with the Exigent team, Gerald has earned deep experience building effective and standardized operations, as well as recruiting and nurturing the human resources needed to bring those processes to life in service of Exigent customers. Before serving as SVP, Gerald mapped out Exigent's service department from the ground up, building a scalable, adaptable and customer-focused Help Desk, creating high-performance Project and Solutions Architecture teams, developing a comprehensive technical training and engineer development program and establishing a Technical Standards Committee that systematically involves highly skilled and seasoned engineers in the vetting process for innovative technologies, best practices, and industry tools.
