CrowdStrike CEO and leadership

Q: Who is the CEO of CrowdStrike?

The CEO of CrowdStrike is George P. Kurtz.

Q: Who is the founder of CrowdStrike?

George P. Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch and Gregg Marston founded CrowdStrike.

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CrowdStrike CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, George P. Kurtz is the CrowdStrike's CEO. CrowdStrike has 1,683 employees, of which 39 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The CrowdStrike executive team is 28% female and 72% male.
68% of the management team is White.
9% of CrowdStrike management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

George P. Kurtz

President/CEO & Co-Founder

George Kurtz is the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. He was also the founder of Foundstone and chief technology officer of McAfee.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Founder

Gregg Marston

Founder

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Shawn Henry

President of Crowdstrike Services & CSO

Burt W. Podbere

Chief Financial Officer

Burt Podbere is a Treasurer, Board Member at CrowdStrike and CFO at CrowdStrike and is based in Sunnyvale, California. He has worked as Senior VP:Fin/Chief Acctg Ofcr at Epocrates; CFO at Net Optics, Inc., part of Ixia; and Chartered Accountant at EY. Burt works or has worked as MEMBER at Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada). He studied at McGill University.

Gerhard Watzinger

Chairman of The Board

Godfrey R. Sullivan

Board Member

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Name & TitleBio

George P. Kurtz

President/CEO & Co-Founder

George Kurtz is the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. He was also the founder of Foundstone and chief technology officer of McAfee.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Founder

Gregg Marston

Founder

CrowdStrike board members

Name & TitleBio

George P. Kurtz

President/CEO & Co-Founder

George Kurtz is the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. He was also the founder of Foundstone and chief technology officer of McAfee.

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Board Member

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Board Member

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Board Member

Burt W. Podbere

Chief Financial Officer

Gerhard Watzinger

Chairman of The Board

Godfrey R. Sullivan

Board Member

Cary J. Davis

Board Member

Laura J. Schumacher

Vice Chairman, External Affairs and Chief Legal Officer of Abbvie

Laura Schumacher is the Vice Chairman, External Affairs and Chief Legal Officer of AbbVie, a FORTUNE 100 global biopharmaceutical company, where she is a member of the executive leadership team and is responsible for global legal, ethics and compliance, health economics outcomes research, corporate brand and communications and government affairs. Prior to AbbVie’s separation from Abbott, she served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel at Abbott. Ms. Schumacher has led business development and ventures & early stage collaborations at both Abbott and AbbVie, and she brings an important understanding of and insight into complex corporate transactions. Ms. Schumacher also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of General Dynamics, where she chairs the Compensation Committee, and brings a deep understanding of the challenges associated with complex, highly regulated industry and corporate governance. Her nonprofit service includes the Board of Trustees for the Ronald McDonald House Charities and the Notre Dame Law School Advisory Board. She earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and a juris doctorate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, U.S.A.

Roxanne Schuh Austin

Board Member

What employees say about the executives at CrowdStrike

Employee reviews

2.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Aug 2023

Pros of working at CrowdStrike

Great company with lots of future promise.

Cons of working at CrowdStrike

Terrible management, very political, back-stabbers everywhere.

CrowdStrike benefits

Salary and restricted stock

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Updated November 18, 2022

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