George Kurtz

About George Kurtz

George Kurtz is cofounder and CEO of CrowdStrike, a cloud-based cybersecurity company based in Sunnyvale, Calif. that went public in 2019.

Kurtz owns around 5%of the company, which he cofounded with Dmitri Alperovitch in 2011; Alperovitch has since left the business.

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

CrowdStrike recorded $2.24 billion in revenues in the year through January 31, 2023.

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