Aliza Knox

Non-Executive Director, IT Woman of the Year (APAC) 2020

Singapore

Aliza is a Non-Executive Director Healthway Medical ,Azentio ( both in Singapore),Tyro and Healthmetrics (both in Australia). She recently stepped down as head of APAC for Cloudflare, an internet security, performance, and reliability provider. Previously, she was Head of APAC for Twitter, having joined the digital enterprise after building a significant business for Google in APAC. She recently retired from the boards of listed company Scentre Group (Westfield Shopping Malls, Australia/NZ) and private company Grant Thornton International (GTIL, London).

She previously served on the boards of listed companies SingPost (mail and e-commerce, Singapore), GfK (#5 global market research firm, Germany), Invocare (Australia) and as an advisor to the ANZ Bank Board Technology Committee. She lead SWAT (Super Women at Twitter) and did the same for Women@Google. She has served on two key committees for the Singapore government, and was invited to address the Singapore Institute of Directors on why gender diversity is important to boards, as well as on globalization. She was named the AWA Singapore International Business Woman of the Year in 2015, elected to Chief Executive Women (Australia) in 2016, featured in the 2018 book, "Women on Board- Making a Real Difference", and called out as one of the Top 100 Women in IT (Singapore).