# Johanna Flower

> Johanna Flower was CrowdStrike's first chief marketing officer, the person who turned a young endpoint-security startup into a name enterprises trusted and the market rewarded with one of the most successful cybersecurity IPOs in history. Across two tenures from 2014 to 2022 she built the brand around a single promise - We Stop Breaches - and treated marketing as category creation rather than campaign management. She now sits on the boards of CrowdStrike, Freshworks, ForgeRock and Seismic, advising high-growth SaaS companies on how to build brands that outlast any one quarter.

- **Role:** Board Director at CrowdStrike
- **Organizations:** CrowdStrike, Freshworks, ForgeRock, Seismic, Websense, Wick Hill
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** B.A. in Business Administration, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
- **Known for:** Served as CrowdStrike's inaugural Chief Marketing Officer across two tenures (2014-2020, 2022), Helped guide CrowdStrike's brand from startup to cybersecurity industry leader, Played a critical role in CrowdStrike's 2019 IPO, widely called one of the most successful cybersecurity IPOs ever

## Career timeline

- **pre-2000** — Led product marketing for European security distributor Wick Hill
- **2000-2014** — Executive roles at Websense (now Forcepoint), including CMO, VP of SMB Sales, and VP of International Marketing and Channel Programs; helped grow revenue from $30M to over $360M
- **2014** — Joined CrowdStrike as its first Chief Marketing Officer
- **2019** — Played a critical role in CrowdStrike's IPO, one of the most successful cybersecurity IPOs in history
- **2020** — Concluded first tenure as CrowdStrike CMO
- **2022** — Returned as CrowdStrike CMO; named to Seismic's Board of Directors in December
- **2023** — Appointed to CrowdStrike's Board of Directors (January 23, 2023)

## Achievements

- Served as CrowdStrike's inaugural Chief Marketing Officer across two tenures (2014-2020, 2022)
- Helped guide CrowdStrike's brand from startup to cybersecurity industry leader
- Played a critical role in CrowdStrike's 2019 IPO, widely called one of the most successful cybersecurity IPOs ever
- Built the 'We Stop Breaches' brand promise adopted company-wide
- At Websense, helped grow revenue from $30M to over $360M and win the largest global market share in web filtering
- Appointed to the boards of CrowdStrike, Freshworks, ForgeRock and Seismic

## Latest updates

- **2023-01** — Appointed to CrowdStrike's Board of Directors
- **2022-12** — Named to Seismic's Board of Directors

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jflower/

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Last updated: 2026-08-14