Aki Anastasiou presents technology and gadget driven features on 702 and Cape Talk. He also hosts a weekly technology show called ‘Tech Busters’ on CNBC Africa where he is also a regular technology commentator. He was one of the first South Africans personalities to use Twitter and is consistently ranked as one of the most influential Twitter users in various polls and publications; Cosmopolitan named his one of their ‘Twitter Kings’.

To stay on top of his game he regularly attends the Consumer Electronics Expo in Las Vegas and the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona among others.And just because he can, he always gets the job of winding-up the crowd of up to 50 000 people at the start of the annual 702 'Walk the Talk'.

Joe Robertson represents Fortinet to the CISO community, where he advises the executive committees of large enterprises and service providers as their digital transformation strategies require security-d riven networks and holistic security approaches. In over four decades in the security and networking business Joe has held technical, marketing, management, and executive roles at companies as diverse as Juniper Networks, Dimension Data, Bay Networks, IBM, and AT&T. He also founded and was on the board of directors of a network security startup.

Alain Sanchez has 20 years of executive engagement experience in the Network and Telecommunications domain, advising the board of Fortune 500 companies and Tier 1 Service Providers. Alain held executive positions in Alcatel-Lucent, Accenture, BT-Global Services and Nortel. Alain graduated from the University of Technology of Compiegne with a degree in Engineering complemented by a master degree in industrial processes.

As Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, Patrick is responsible for creating and evangelizing key messages about Fortinet’s network security solutions. Through his in-depth understanding of the complexities of network security, Patrick is able to cut through the half-truths and myths surrounding the subject to provide clear and concise information to Fortinet’s customers and partners.

Prior to joining Fortinet, over the course of the past 30 years he has worked for a number of small to medium size organizations as well as larger companies such as Wellfleet Communications, Bay Networks, Nortel Networks, Hughes Network Systems and Comtech Mobile Data Communications in the United States, the United Kingdom and France, holding a range of senior level international sales and marketing roles. He received his technical training while serving in the US Navy.

Patrick is based at Fortinet’s EMEA office in Sophia Antipolis, France.