Gregg Marston

Gregg Marston possessed a highly structured background in corporate finance and venture scaling. His critical formative experience occurred as the Chief Financial Officer of Foundstone, a highly successful cybersecurity startup previously founded by George Kurtz. This deep, trusting professional background in aggressively managing startup capital and executing a lucrative exit strategy gave him the exact financial blueprint required to successfully secure Warburg Pincus funding and bootstrap CrowdStrike.

Gregg Marston is the co-founder and former President of CrowdStrike, bringing extensive enterprise software commercialization experience to the founding team. Prior to CrowdStrike, Marston served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of AirDefense, a wireless security company that was acquired by IBM in 2007, and held senior leadership roles at Network Associates (later McAfee). Marston's expertise in building and scaling channel partner ecosystems was instrumental in developing CrowdStrike's 10,000-partner global reseller network, which now drives 70% of the company's new business. His strategic guidance during CrowdStrike's 2019 IPO and subsequent follow-on offerings ensured that the company maintained optimal capital structure while funding aggressive research and development initiatives. Marston's commercial acumen and deep relationships with Fortune 500 CIOs provided CrowdStrike with the critical early adopters needed to validate the cloud-native endpoint protection model and establish the data network effect that underpins the company's competitive advantage.