George Kurtz

Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of CrowdStrike, a cutting-edge security technology company focused creating the worlds leading Next Generation Endpoint Platform (Falcon) delivered from the Cloud. Leading a world class team on a mission to change the entire security industry.

Worked to assemble a world-class team that later became CrowdStrike. Wrote the original business plan and raised one of the largest series "A" rounds in the security industry.

Responsible for the creation of the Office of the CTO and driving the integrated security architectures and platforms of this ~$3B product business that had propelled McAfee into a leadership position in digital security. His entrepreneurial background and ability to commercialize nascent technologies enabled him to drive innovation throughout McAfee by identifying market trends and correlating them with customer feedback to optimize product direction and development. In addition, George was heavily involved in M&A activities and helped drive new technology acquisitions during his 7 year tenure at McAfee.

Responsible for P&L and Go-To-Market Strategy for the Risk and Compliance Business Unit (BU), which became the Corporate Security BU (a $1.5B annual revenue stream for McAfee). Responsibilities included business operations, strategy, revenue bookings, cost and margin control, product sales, and marketing strategies. Identified the industry need and executed on moving McAfee into the emerging embedded security space by orchestrating the acquisition of SolidCore and doubling this new McAfee portfolio offering in less than one year.

Lead the enterprise sales segment for McAfee, a $1B segment focused on the largest customers of McAfee products.

BU head managing the P/L and go to market activities for the group.

Started Foundstone in October 1999 as the founder and CEO, and was responsible for recruiting the other six founding team members. Led the company from concept to $28M run-rate when it was acquired by McAfee in October 2004 for nearly $90M. Responsible for the health and operating excellence of the company while directly managing all functions, including sales, finance, marketing, HR, legal, professional services, and technology. Worked extensively with the CFO to create all operating budgets and was responsible for forecasting, budgeting, and operating expense margins while managing the entire P&L. Recruited and lead the entire Board of Directors from inception to acquisition. Directly sourced and secured all funding of rounds(A/B/B1), and was personally responsible for leading the negotiations and consummating the sale to McAfee. Under George’s leadership, Foundstone received numerous awards, including: Inc.’s 500 Top 500 Companies, Software Council of Southern California’s, “Software Entrepreneur of the Year 2003”, “Software CEO of the Year 2005”, Fast Company’s “Fast 50”, AeA’s “Outstanding Executive”, Deloitte’s “Fast 50”, Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist”, Orange County’s “Hottest 25 People”, and numerous other accolades and mentions.

George served as a senior manager and the national leader of Ernst & Young’s Security Profiling Services Group Responsible for managing and performing a variety of eCommerce related security engagements with clients in financial services, manufacturing, retailing, pharmaceuticals and high technology industries.

Developed the first ever Internet pen-testing methodology for all of Price Waterhouse. Lead an elite team of consultants around the US.

BS - Accounting