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George Kurtz
American billionaire businessman (born 1965) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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George Kurtz is an American businessman. He is the CEO of the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, which he co-founded with Dmitri Alperovitch.
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Born | (1965-05-05) May 5, 1965 (age 59) New Jersey, U.S.[1] |
Alma mater | Seton Hall University[2] |
Occupation(s) | President and CEO of CrowdStrike |
Spouse | Annamaria Kurtz |
Children | 2 |
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In 2024, his company accidentally 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[3].
Earlier, Kurtz founded Foundstone and served as chief technology officer of McAfee.[4] He wrote Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions.[5] He is also a racing driver.[6]