George kurtz political affiliation
George kurtz political affiliation
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George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman (born 1970)
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.[2] He is also the author of the best-selling book of all time on cybersecurity, Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions.[3]
Kurtz served as executive vice president and chief technology officer of McAfee when that company released a patch that crashed many of its client's computers.[4][5]
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.[6]
In 2024, Fortune Magazine named Kurtz as the 76th most powerful person in business.[7