Zero Trust, Zero Nonsense:
A Faster, More Practical Approach

Jonathon Dixon is Vice President & Managing Director, Asia Pacific (including Japan & Greater China) at Cloudflare. In this role, he is responsible for building and leading all APJC customer-facing teams, as well as developing channels and alliances, to help organizations leverage the power of Cloudflare's global network and industry leading 'cloud/Saas' engineered security capabilities. Today, Cloudflare has more than 200 employees in the region, and has a global network that spans 200 cities in more than 100 countries, including 45 cities in APJC. Prior to Cloudflare, Jonathon held multiple leadership roles at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for almost 5 years, including leading the multi-billion dollar Enterprise Business Segment with 800+ employees across Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ). Jonathon was a member of AWS' APJ Strategic Leadership and Global Accounts Segment Global Leadership Team.

Jonathon also held multiple sales and business segment and leadership roles at Cisco and IBM over a span of 15 years, and was a member of Cisco's APJ Global Service Provider Board. Since 2007, Jonathon has been a member of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue (AALD), and was co-chair of the Young Leadership Dialogue from 2009 to 2012. Jonathon is also a Board Member of the Telco Together Foundation, a founding member of the Butterfly Foundation and Zo-ee Charity, and is an active member of the Carbine Club, Melbourne Football & Cricket Clubs and Royal South Yarra Tennis Club.

Jonathon completed a Bachelor of Business degree from RMIT University.

Samuel Sathyajith is the Head of India & SAARC Region at Cloudflare. Appointed to this position in mid 2020, Sam brings to Cloudflare three decades of diverse work experience in various leadership roles in the Cyber security industry as an accomplished business leader, with a proven track record of growing revenue & profits and piloting start-ups to a market leader in India & South Asia region.

Sam has a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Instrumentation Technology from Bangalore University & Aeronautical Electronics Engineering from Air Force Technical College.

Sam started his career as a Commissioned Officer in the Indian Air Force in the Aeronautical Engineering branch and after completing the Short Service Commission tenure of 6 years, joined the growing IT industry in India. Thereafter he has held managerial and leadership positions in various organisations in the Cyber security industry and most recently prior to Cloudflare, being the India & SAARC Regional head of Arbor Networks.

Harman is a Solution Architect with Cloudlfare and has two decades of experience in the IT industry. He has held various senior architecture and engineering roles with multiple security vendors, service providers and large integrators.

Harman is passionate about networking and security and has extensive experience in Software Defined Networking, Multi Cloud and distributed environments. He is focused on helping organisations address key business challenges with building an effective enterprise architecture and helping adopt new technologies in networking and security.

Antonio Rancan is a Sydney based Solutions Architect at Cloudflare covering the APJC region. Specialising in Zero Trust and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), he enables customers to secure and modernise their corporate networks through the adoption of Cloudflare’s solutions.

Prior to his role at Cloudflare, Antonio provided technology consulting leadership in IT infrastructure, network and security projects. Past customers have ranged from SMEs to large enterprises across a wide range of industries. His consultative approach helps address customer needs from requirements validation through to solution implementation.

Fernando is the Chief Technologist and Evangelist for Asia Pacific, Japan and China at Cloudflare, and has been in the IT industry for almost two decades, starting his early career as a developer, transitioning to Infrastructure roles in Server, Application and Networking space in both Operations and Professional Services, with a focus on Security. For the last decade, Fernando has been focused on resolving customer’s challenges, and evangelizing new technologies in the Application Performance and Security areas. Fernando has also spent a number of years working for a major Telco in APAC, specializing in WAN, Cloud, Security and Media solutions.