2/23/2012 - Two executives who left security software maker McAfee after Intel Corp bought the company last year have started a firm that is developing technology to help corporations and government agencies track down elusive hackers.
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus led the initial Series A funding in the company, dubbed CrowdStrike.
The new company’s chief executive, George Kurtz, announced the formation of the company on his blog, www.georgekurtz.com.
Kurtz, the former worldwide chief technology offer of McAfee, has been working with Warburg on the project since November, when the private equity firm brought him on as a “executive in residence.”
Warburg’s executive in residence program is a CEO-in-waiting position in which the private equity firm helps entrepreneurs incubate ideas into companies in which it will eventually invest.
CrowdStrike’s other co-founders are Dmitri Alperovitch, former vice president of threat research at McAfee, and Gregg Marston, who worked as chief financial officer of Foundstone Inc, an IT security solutions provider that Kurtz sold to McAfee.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-startup-idUSTRE81M21Q20120223
Crowdstrike, Inc.
File Number:
F19645384
Domestic Address:
2338 W ROYAL PALM RD
STE J
PHOENIX, AZ 85021
Foreign Address:
CORPORATION SERVICE COMANY
2711 CENTERVILLE ROAD
SUITE 400
WILMINGTON, DE 19808
Agent Name: CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY
Agent Mailing Address:
2338 W ROYAL PALM RD
STE J
PHOENIX, AZ 85021
Incorporation Date: 11/12/2014
Domicile: DELAWARE
Officer Information:
GEORGE KURTZ - PRESIDENT/CEO, SECRETARY, TREASURER
Director Information:
GEORGE KURTZ - DIRECTOR
CARY DAVIS - DIRECTOR
SAMEER GANDHI - DIRECTOR
GERHARD WATZINGER - DIRECTOR
http://ecorp.azcc.gov/Details/Corp?corpid=F19645384&type=CORPORATION
Cary J. Davis
Managing Director
Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Financial Services
New York
Cary J. Davis is based in New York, joined Warburg Pincus in 1994 and is responsible for Technology, Media and Telecommunications group investments in the software and financial technology sectors. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Davis was Executive Assistant to Michael Dell at Dell Computer and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is a Director of Crowdstrike, GT Nexus and Interactive Data Corporation. Mr. Davis has been an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and is Chairman Emeritus of the Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst. He is also Chairman of the Boys Prep charter school and a Trustee of the American Academy in Rome. Mr. Davis received a B.A. in economics from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
http://www.warburgpincus.com/people/cary-j-davis/