What Happened?
San Jose, CA-based Malwarebytes Appointed Marcin Kleczynski as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
Malwarebytes provides software designed to protect consumers and businesses against malicious threats that consistently escape detection by other antivirus solutions. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro, the company’s flagship product, employs a highly advanced behavior-based detection engine that has removed more than 5 billion malicious threats from computers worldwide. Founded in 2008, the self-funded company is headquartered in California, operates offices in Europe, and employs a global team of researchers and experts.
About the Person
Marcin Kleczynski is the founder and CEO of Malwarebytes. Marcin has been named to the 2015 Forbes 30 Under 30 Rising Stars of Enterprise Technology list and the Silicon Valley Business Journal`s 40 Under 40 award, adding those to a 2014 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He created Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to address the alarming amounts of malicious threats that were slipping by most major security vendors undetected. The company incorporated in 2008 and holds strong to Marcin`s original belief that all users have the right to a malware-free existence. Today, he leads the strategic expansion of the business as well as overseeing the long term vision for the research and development teams. In December 2015, Malwarebytes reported a $100 Million annualized billing run-rate and more than 100 percent growth in 2015 annual revenue. Malwarebytes has been recognized as one of the “fastest growing” and “most promising” by Inc. and Forbes respectively. Additionally, Malwarebytes was recently named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and the Silicon Valley Business Journal ranked the company 18th on the top 50 fastest growing private companies. In 2015, downloads of Malwarebytes products surpassed 500 million. Collectively detecting more than 500,000 infections per hour, the solutions have removed more than five billion pieces of malware and saved more than 750 million IT hours. Distributed globally, Malwarebytes now has more than 30 million active users. Marcin attended the University of Illinois, where he majored in Computer Science.
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