Dmitri Alperovitch
Silverado Policy Accelerator
Dmitri Alperovitch is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, national bestselling author of “World on the Brink: How American Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century,” founder of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and Co-Founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike Inc., one of the world’s largest cybersecurity firms.
A renowned thought leader on geopolitics, great power competition and cybersecurity strategy, technology visionary and business executive, Alperovitch has served as special advisor to the Department of Defense and currently serves on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Advisory Council and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Cyber Safety Review Board. His writings on geopolitics, foreign policy and cybersecurity issues have appeared in major news outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Economist and Foreign Affairs, and he is a regular national security contributor to national and international online and television news programs.
Alperovitch is also an active angel investor and board member of multiple high-growth technology companies. He has been named as one of Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40” most influential young people in business, and Politico Magazine has featured Alperovitch as one of “Politico 50” influential thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics. Alperovitch was also named a “D.C. Tech Titan” and one of the 500 most influential people in Washington by Washingtonian Magazine in 2022, 2023 and 2024. He is the host and creator of Silverado’s popular “Geopolitics Decanted” podcast, dedicated to expert analysis of the most pressing national security and geopolitical challenges of our time.
In 2023, DHS presented Alperovitch with the Outstanding Americans by Choice recognition for his civic and professional contributions as a naturalized U.S. citizen, the highest recognition of its type that the Department can bestow.