Who Founded CrowdStrike?

George Kurtz co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011 and has served as CEO since then, later also taking the title of president. He pushed the company to replace signature-based antivirus with a cloud-native, behavior-based platform. He led it through its 2019 Nasdaq IPO, the 2021 move to Austin, and the response to the July 2024 outage. By fiscal 2026 CrowdStrike reported $4.81 billion of revenue. Outside work, Kurtz races in professional endurance sports car events, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

George Kurtz was born in 1970 in New Jersey. Education: Parsippany High School; Seton Hall University.

Dmitri Alperovitch co-founded CrowdStrike and served as its chief technology officer, building its threat intelligence practice and adversary-naming approach (for example "Fancy Bear" and "Cozy Bear"). He left the company in 2020 and co-founded the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a geopolitics and national security think tank.

Dmitri Alperovitch was born in 1980 in Moscow. Education: Georgia Tech.

Alperovitch was born in Russia in 1980 and is a naturalised US citizen. He was CrowdStrike's chief technology officer and now chairs the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a geopolitics think-tank in Washington, D.C.

Gregg Marston co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011 alongside George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch. As the highly experienced financial architect of the trio, he secured the massive early venture capital rounds from Warburg Pincus that allowed the company to rapidly build its cloud-native architecture. He served as the company's first CFO before departing in 2015. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).