Gregg Marston

Gregg Marston brought decades of enterprise software sales and go-to-market expertise to CrowdStrike’s founding in 2011, having previously built and sold two successful security companies, providing the critical commercial strategy that allowed CrowdStrike to penetrate the Fortune 500 market.

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.