George Kurtz

George Kurtz (born October 14, 1970) is an American businessman. He is the CEO and founder of the cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike, and the founder and former CEO of Foundstone, a worldwide security products and anti-virus software company.

In 2024, his company CrowdStrike crashed millions of Windows computers around the world, causing billions of dollars in economic losses in what has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology.

Earlier, Kurtz co-wrote ''Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions'' and founded Foundstone. He was serving as chief technology officer of McAfee when that company released a patch that crashed many of its client's computers. He is also an amateur racing driver. Provided by Wikipedia