Alonso Bustamante

Alonso Bustamante is the Head of Strategy and M&A at Cloudflare, a global cloud platform that delivers a broad range of network and security services to businesses around the world. Alonso is also Head of Cloudflare London, the company's EMEA headquarters. He has completed multiple acquisitions that are now a core part of the company’s long-term strategy and has scaled the company’s EMEA operations, including the selection and launch of its new European R&D Center in Lisbon. Previously, he was part of the Global Strategy Group at Samsung in Korea, and a founding member at IGNIA, a venture capital firm that invests in high growth enterprises targeting the emerging middle class in Mexico. He has also held positions at Google and Atomico, a European venture capital fund investing in technology. He holds a BA with majors in International Studies, Political Science and Latin American Studies from the University of Chicago and an MBA from London Business School, where he was a Chevening Scholar.