CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. announced the promotion of Michael Sentonas to president. Sentonas, who has served as CrowdStrike's chief technology officer since 2020, will be responsible for leading the company's product and go-to-market functions, including its sales, marketing, product and engineering, threat intelligence, corporate development and CTO teams. The appointment comes as CrowdStrike, the recognized market leader in endpoint security, drives growth at scale as customers consolidate point products, including XDR, cloud security, identity protection and more, on its industry-leading cybersecurity platform. Sentonas will report to CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO, George Kurtz, with CrowdStrike's chief sales officer (Jim Seidel), chief marketing officer (Jennifer Johnson), chief product & engineering officer (Amol Kulkarni), and senior vice president of Intelligence (Adam Meyers) reporting directly into Sentonas.

Sentonas joined CrowdStrike in 2016 as vice president of Technology Strategy, and was promoted to CTO in 2020. Prior to CrowdStrike, Sentonas held multiple leadership roles at McAfee that spanned sales, go-to-market, and technology responsibilities. He served as the company's chief technology officer – Security Connected, and chief technology and strategy officer Asia Pacific.

Sentonas was also part of McAfee's Advanced Technology Group, a specialist sales team where he drove customer transactions, go-to-market strategy, and previously oversaw sales engineering and services for the APAC region.