CrowdStrike has appointed Jonathon Dixon as vice president and managing director for the Japan and Asia Pacific (JAPAC) theatre, signalling a renewed push to accelerate AI-powered cybersecurity adoption across the region.
Dixon steps into the role with more than 25 years of cybersecurity and IT leadership experience. His immediate mandate is to drive regional growth and expand adoption of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform as organisations modernise their security architectures in response to increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven threats.
The JAPAC region has emerged as a strategic growth market for cybersecurity vendors, as enterprises reassess legacy security stacks that are struggling to keep pace with automation-led attacks and expanding digital footprints.
A track record of scaling regional businesses
Dixon brings extensive regional experience across Japan, Asia Pacific and Greater China. Most recently, he served as vice president and managing director for Japan and Asia-Pacific at Verkada, where he led go-to-market and operational teams to scale the company’s footprint across the region.
Before that, he held the role of vice president and managing director for Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China at Cloudflare, where the APJC theatre became the company’s fastest-growing region under his leadership.
Earlier in his career, Dixon held senior leadership roles at Amazon Web Services, Cisco, and IBM, managing multi-billion-dollar regional business segments and driving revenue growth through channel development and go-to-market strategy.
His appointment comes at a time when enterprises across JAPAC are accelerating cloud migration, AI adoption and digital transformation initiatives—moves that simultaneously expand their cyber attack surface.
JAPAC as a strategic growth theatre
Michael Sentonas, president of CrowdStrike, described the region as a critical growth market as organisations modernise their security strategies for the AI era.
“We are pleased to welcome Jonathon as we continue to build momentum across JAPAC. He brings a rare mix of regional insight and experience scaling businesses, which will be critical to our continued growth in the region,” Sentonas said. “JAPAC is an important growth theatre as organizations modernize their security for the AI era.”
For CrowdStrike, the focus is clear: extend the reach of its AI-native Falcon platform across enterprises that are moving away from fragmented, legacy-based security architectures towards consolidated, cloud-delivered protection models.
Dixon, for his part, framed the opportunity in the context of an evolving threat landscape.
“CrowdStrike is leading cybersecurity in the AI era, delivering the game-changing technology that organizations throughout JAPAC need to secure a rapidly evolving threat landscape,” he said. “I am thrilled to be joining CrowdStrike as the company continues to revolutionize cybersecurity and define AI-native platform protection.”
As AI reshapes both enterprise operations and cyber adversary capabilities, leadership appointments like this underline how vendors are positioning themselves not just as product providers, but as long-term transformation partners in one of the world’s fastest-evolving cybersecurity markets.