CrowdStrike Expands Operations within Japan, Registers Massive Growth in Region
Company announces leadership expansion and triple-digit growth within region; continues to actively grow and invest within APAC
Tokyo, Japan, January 24, 2018 – CrowdStrike® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced its rapid expansion of customer growth, new business opportunities, and operations in Japan, alongside the company’s explosive growth within the APAC region. CrowdStrike is also announcing the appointment of a local leadership team.
CrowdStrike has appointed Tetsuya Kawai as managing director of Japan to lead business growth and operational expansion within the region. An industry veteran, Kawai previously held senior roles at Verizon, Symantec, The Attachmate Group and HP. CrowdStrike continues to invest in Japan, building out its regional salesforce with supporting functions in sales engineering, marketing, and channel sales. CrowdStrike is currently looking to recruit the top technical and sales talent within the region, and plans to make a number of strategic hires by the end of 2018.
Since expanding its local presence and go-to market opportunities, including its channel and reseller ecosystem, CrowdStrike has seen growing momentum in its business, operations, and sales. According to “ITR Market View Endpoint / Sanitization / Internet Separation Market 2017,” published in November 2017 by ITR Corporation, a consulting and research firm in Japan, CrowdStrike has been ranked as #1 in market share in the endpoint detection and response (EDR) market in Japan for three years in a row. This is based on revenue estimates from 2015 to 2017.
In Japan, business growth milestones registered within the first half of the year include:
- 204 percent growth in total annual contract value, year-over-year growth
- 208 percent growth in new annual contract value, year-over-year
- Doubled the total number of customers, year-over-year