Management Team

John Fison

CEO - CyberHound

John Fison is responsible for the strategic development of CyberHound in Australia and overseas. John has led the company since 2005 and has overseen exponential growth in the domestic business as well as international expansion into Europe, Asia and the Americas. This includes a major deal to develop a custom solution for the Japanese market for Canon IT Solutions and a strategic channelship with Bloomberg. John has developed strategic alliances with industry giants such as HP, IBM,VMware, Symantec and ESET.

Prior to joining CyberHound, John built an IT solutions company in the UK into a A$125m business over 7 years, employing over 120 people. John won several prestigious awards in the UK for growth and entrepreneurship and was an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year winner in 2001 and latterly was selected as a judge for this program in the UK and more recently in Australia.

John is one of the first UK Chartered Directors and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Alex West

Group Chief Operations Officer

Alex heads Infrastructure, networks and customer experience with 20 years operational experience. Previously Chief Operating Officer at Vocus Limited and prior to that, Pipe Networks Limited.

Ryan Crouch

Chief Operating Officer - Networks

Ryan Crouch is responsible for the active network, software & technical solutions that make up the Superloop Network in Australia and abroad.

Prior to joining Superloop, Ryan was a co-founder of APEXnetworks, a wholesale network access service aggregator within the Australian telecommunications market. From technical design, software development and system architecture Ryan was the driving force in technical delivery and product offering to channel customers building a multi-carrier access network that spanned Australia for over nine years.

Jon Tidd

Group Chief Financial Officer

Jon Tidd is Group Chief Financial Officer of Superloop, having joined in September 2018. Jon has held a number of senior executive financial, strategy and operational roles with nbn co, Seven West Media and Vodafone Australia.

Jon is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA), a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), a member of CPA Australia (CPA), a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Business, Finance & Economics from the University of Manchester and has attended Stanford University's Executive Program for Growing Companies.

Susana Halliday

Country Manager - Hong Kong

Susana has 30 years experience working on infrastructure development projects. She has worked in Hong Kong the last 25 years and has been involved in facilitating telecommunication projects in Asia Pacific over the last 15 years.

Susana joined Superloop in early 2014 and was responsible for securing the company's telecommunication licenses and permits and for the management of the Hong Kong network development, including the design and construction of the TKO Express cable system. She is a Director of Superloop (Hong Kong) Limited and is responsible for managing Superloop's Hong Kong operations.

Prior to joining Superloop, Susana worked for multinational engineering and design companies in Hong Kong and in her previous role she was Director of utilities, water engineering and environmental services for Asia-Pacific.

She has a bachelors degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a masters degree from the University of Hong Kong.

Carlos Trujilo

Commercial Director

Carlos has worked with major Tier 1 Carriers in the United States, Europe and throughout Asia, and was most recently Director of International Planning at Telstra. He joined in
 2012 as Commercial Director, going on to become General Manager in 2014. Carlos' experience includes the delivery of significant submarine infrastructure projects including the Telstra Endeavour Project, where he drove the project from business case development to commercial and operational execution.

Additionally, during his tenure at Telstra, Carlos represented Telstra's investment interests in the Asia America's Gateway Consortium Cable as both the Chairman of the Management Committee and the Commercial Working Group. Carlos has worked in telecommunications for 26 years, nine of those years in multiple operational roles at Telstra. Carlos holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and an Executive MBA.

David Thomas

Chief Commercial Officer

An international telecoms executive with over 30 years' experience including senior roles in sales, marketing, commercial operations, product, strategy & corporate development at Telstra, BT Group, AT&T and Telecom NZ. Most recently a strategic adviser to shareholders, boards and executives, David has worked with a number of businesses in the fields of cloud cyber security, artificial intelligence computing, secure IoT (M2M), smart-grids, security technology distribution and related field services.

David Thorn

Chief Revenue Officer

From 2013 David was the Managing Director of Sales and Business development for Mandoe Media. Selling to, and supporting large customer deployments including McDonalds, Dominos, Caltex, City Beach and Priceline. David led the organisation to growth in Sales and Revenue along with the implementation of International expansion into Asia. David was responsible for the development of Mandoes Direct to Market and Partner Channel Sales Strategy.

Prior to Mandoe, David was appointed Executive Director of Telstra's Enterprise Sales Division in November 2011. David managed a National Team of 235 people and is responsible for over 1500 key customers nationally.

In 2006 David came to Australia as State Director of NSW Enterprise and Government, based in Sydney. David managed a team of 115 people; he was responsible for over 500 key customers.

Michael Blake

Chief Operating Officer - Superloop Broadband

Prior to joining Superloop, Michael was co-founder and CTO of NuSkope, a fixed wireless provider located in South Australia. Having experienced all roles within the growing NuSkope over the last 11 years with a background in software development Michael focused leading the technical design, software development and system architecture of the NuSkope network. Michael brings over 14 years of experience in the consumer broadband space to Superloop.

Andrew Lawrence

Chief Information Security Officer

20 years ago Andrew was living and breathing the excitement of dial-up internet working helpdesk at a local ISP in South East Queensland. It was meant to be just a part-time job whilst Andrew finished his schooling but it turned out to pave his career in networks and IT security.

From these humble beginnings Andrew built and delivered data networks, developed cyber strategies and implemented technology governance for investment banks, superannuation firms and large corporations. From high frequency trading, to F1 racing, Andrew has travelled the world guiding corporations through the ever-changing IT security landscape. As Chief Information Security Officer, Andrew brings over two decades of experience in information security, cyber strategy and service delivery to Superloop.

Ashleigh Loughnan

Group Head of People & Culture

Responsible for group strategic and operational human resource management and employment relations, Ashleigh brings a wealth of experience. Previously EGM - People, Property & Procurement at Tatts Group Limited. Prior to Tatts Group, Ashleigh was the EGM - Human Resources at Wotif Group.