George Kurtz

About George Kurtz

George Kurtz is cofounder and CEO of CrowdStrike, a cloud-based cybersecurity company based in Sunnyvale, California.

Kurtz cofounded the company with Dmitri Alperovitch in 2011and took it public in 2019.

When internal emails from the Democratic National Committee were leaked to the public in 2016, the DNC hired CrowdStrike to investigate the hack.

In July 2024, a bug in a CrowdStrike software updated set off an outage that grounded flights, took media outlets offline and disrupted companies worldwide.

Prior to CrowdStrike, Kurtz started security tech firm Foundstone in 1999, which was acquired by McAfee in 2004.

CrowdStrike recorded $3.95 billion in revenue in the year through January 31, 2025.