Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, April 2025 — Karthik Sathuragiri has been appointed as Director and Head of Marketing for India and South Asia at CrowdStrike, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions. His appointment marks a strategic move by CrowdStrike to expand its footprint in one of the most dynamic and digitally advancing regions of the world.
With nearly two decades of experience in B2B tech marketing, Karthik Sathuragiri brings a proven track record of building high-impact brands and driving growth across cloud, cybersecurity, SaaS, and automation domains. Most recently, he served as Head of Marketing at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for India and South Asia, where he played a key role in expanding AWS’s brand visibility and market leadership in the region.
Prior to AWS, Karthik held senior marketing leadership roles at Automation Anywhere, Freshworks, Akamai Technologies, and SAP, accumulating deep expertise in go-to-market strategy, demand generation, partner marketing, and field execution. A UCLA Anderson School of Management alumnus, he is widely regarded for his ability to align marketing vision with business outcomes, while building scalable teams and strong brand narratives.
At CrowdStrike, Karthik will lead regional marketing efforts including brand strategy, pipeline acceleration, partner ecosystem development, and field engagement—as cybersecurity continues to rise as a board-level priority across enterprises in India and South Asia’s digital economy.
CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD) is a global cybersecurity leader redefining security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform provides unparalleled protection for endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data—delivering real-time attack indicators, elite threat hunting, automated protection, and streamlined remediation. Trusted by organizations around the globe, CrowdStrike’s mission is simple: We stop breaches.
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