Security News > 2020 > February > CrowdStrike Co-Founder and CTO Steps Down to Launch Nonprofit Policy Accelerator
Endpoint security firm CrowdStrike announced on Wednesday that Michael Sentonas has been appointed chief technology officer after Dmitri Alperovitch decided to leave the company to launch a non-profit policy accelerator.
Alperovitch, one of the founders of CrowdStrike, has been acting as CTO since the company's launch in 2011.
In its announcement, CrowdStrike only said he had transitioned out of the company, but Alperovitch has shared some information about his future plans on social media.
"I have left CrowdStrike to launch a non-partisan, non-profit policy accelerator," Alperovitch said.
"Since founding CrowdStrike and during my tenure, I helped transform the cybersecurity industry and want to apply the same ingenuity and a venture approach to galvanize solutions to pressing cybersecurity national security and foreign policy challenges."