Founder Profile
Dmitri Alperovitch
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Dmitri Alperovitch?
Dmitri Alperovitch is a founder of CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc., which was founded in 2011 with George Kurtz and Gregg Marston.
- Company founded
- CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
- Founded
- 2011
- Co-founders
- George Kurtz and Gregg Marston
Background
Alperovitch led threat research at McAfee, where his team published research on the Operation Aurora and Shady RAT cyber-espionage campaigns.
Founding Story
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.